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ALL children are as good as all other children...someone tell THAT to Justice Kennedy and the Prop 8 plaintiffs 27 Jun 2013 | 01:28 am
On the steps of the US Supreme Court today, a plaintiff in the Prop 8 case said that the message from the Supreme Court to same-sex couples is that "your children are just as good as other children." ...
DC considers new surrogacy legislation 21 Jun 2013 | 06:49 pm
Surrogacy is a crime in the District of Columbia. That's likely to change later this year. Yesterday the DC City Council Committee on Public Safety and the Judiciary held a hearing on a bill that w...
Supreme Court sides with designated beneficiary 9 Jun 2013 | 01:57 am
I'm in vacation mode, so I'm late in blogging about last Monday's US Supreme Court ruling in Hillman v. Maretta, which I wrote about here when it was argued. (Refer to that post for all the facts and...
Texas lesbian mom ordered to stop living with her partner 26 May 2013 | 08:35 am
By complete coincidence, just after I posted earlier this week about restrictions on the custody and visitation rights of gay and lesbian parents, an example of that very thing hit the national news. ...
Why constitutional arguments don't win for LGBT parents leaving heterosexual marriages 21 May 2013 | 09:26 pm
I love the relatively new phenomenon of law reviews creating online editions of short pieces. It means instant accessibility for ideas that don't need 75 pages in a law review and don't need a zillio...
Florida: A sperm donor is not a parent -- so far, so good. But a nonbio mom is not a parent, and that's the real problem 16 May 2013 | 08:13 pm
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's what the Florida statute says, and that's what a previous appea...
US Supreme Court will rule on this: Who gets a deceased federal employee's life insurance proceeds, his wife or his designated beneficiary, who happen... 7 May 2013 | 07:39 am
I was plenty busy with the same-sex marriage cases and the Indian Child Welfare Act case, so I'm just now catching up on another case the Supreme Court will resolve by the end of June. It's Hillman v....
Iowa Supreme Court rules birth mother's female spouse must be listed on child's birth certificate 4 May 2013 | 12:00 am
I've written extensively about the Gartner case, in which Lambda Legal represented a married lesbian couple challenging the refusal of the Iowa Department of Health to place the name of the nonbiologi...
Financial aid changes for children of same-sex (and other unmarried) couples 30 Apr 2013 | 11:15 pm
I have consistently pointed out that marriage and parentage are two separate matters and that parentage for two same-sex parents can exist regardless of marriage. I also say (repeatedly) that marriag...
Defining parentage under the Indian Child Welfare Act -- why it matters 16 Apr 2013 | 11:08 pm
The Supreme Court will rule in a family law dispute this term, an unusual enough circumstance. This one is in federal court because of a federal statute -- the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act. ICWA is...
