Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage

In an opinion rendered yesterday in A.A.B. v. B.O.C ., a Florida appeals court has reiterated that a sperm donor is not a parent.  That...

This is how parentage should be determined. The Supreme Court of Kansas ruled yesterday, in Frazier v. Goudschaal, that two children born t...

It still happens today.  Lesbian mothers lose custody of their children to their ex-husbands because they are lesbian.  Hard to believe, in ...

The Illinois Appellate Court, Fifth District, has afforded a huge win to nonbio moms of children conceived through donor insemination.  The ...

A Pennsylvania appeals court has overturned a trial court order giving custody of two children to their maternal grandparents rather than th...

A California Appeals Court has once again recognized the parentage of a woman who raised a child with her partner for many years.   This con...

It's another lesbian-behaving-badly case, this one entitled Bates v. Bates .  In 2007, a lesbian couple, Nicole and Tina Bates, successf...

In a unanimous opinion, the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled today in Chatterjee v. King that a nonbiological, nonadoptive mother has standin...

After bio mom, J.L.G., and nobio mom, M.L.G., split up, J. married a man and the couple completed a stepparent adoption of M.E.G., the child...

In a 41-page opinion , an Ohio Magistrate has awarded shared legal and physical custody of 8-year-old Maddie Smith to her biological mother,...

California has developed a considerable body of law on when a person is a presumed parent because s/he received the child into her/his home ...

A Florida appeals court, in T.M.H. v. D.M.T ., has ruled that a child's birth mother and genetic mother are both her legal parents when...

There are many cases arising in the context of a wife who gives birth to a child conceived in an extramarital relationship.  Courts have oft...

On Friday, in S.Y. v. S.B., the California Third Appellate District upheld a trial court order that found S.Y. to be a parent of two childr...

Since the mid 1970's, gay rights advocates, and advocates for children, have argued that a judge's view of the morality of a gay or ...

On September 30, the Texas Supreme Court denied review in a case brought by the nonbiological father of a child born using his ex-partner...

The facts are sad but common. Lesbian couple, Teri Latham and Susan Rae Schwerdtfeger, were together for 20 years and had a child born to S...

An Illinois state trial judge has thrown out the law suit filed by Catholic Charities of Illinois. The state of Illinois refused to renew ...

Almost two years ago, Wisconsin instituted a domestic partner registry, which was immediately challenged as a violation of the state's s...

The five justices on the Wyoming Supreme Court ruled unanimously yesterday that a lesbian couple married in Canada could divorce in Wyoming....