Recent Posts Tagged With 'custody'

• Breaking: Lisa Miller Fails to Transfer Custody of Daughter to Her Other Mother as Ordered

  Posted on Friday January 1st, 2010 at 13:48 in parenting, custody, vermont, politics and law, janet jenkins, lisa miller

  “Ex-gay” mom Lisa Miller has failed to show up at her ex-partner Janet Jenkins’ parents’ home in Falls Church, Virginia, to transfer custody of their seven-year-old daughter Isabella as ordered by a Vermont court. The couple h...

• Breaking: Ex-Lesbian Mom Incommunicado Before Custody Handover

  Posted on Tuesday December 29th, 2009 at 15:53 in parenting, Virginia, child custody, custody, vermont, politics and law, janet jenkins, lisa miller, william cohen

  Lisa Miller, the “ex-lesbian” mom who has been waging a lengthy custody battle with her former partner, Janet Jenkins, over their daughter Isabella, “has ceased contact with her attorneys and disappeared with (Isabella),” acco...

• Which LGBT-Related Legislation or Cases Had the Most Impact for You in 2009?

  Posted on Sunday December 20th, 2009 at 05:09 in custody, legislation, politics and law, court cases

  Share your opinions, dear readers: Which LGBT-related legislation and/or court cases had the most impact (positive or negative) on your lives this past year? Which do you think had the most impact overall on LGBT parents and their children, and on LG...

• Texas Court Changes Mind in Favor of Nonbio Mom

  Posted on Thursday December 17th, 2009 at 21:53 in texas, parenting, child custody, custody, politics and law, nonbio mom, nonbiological mom

  Too good to wait for the next roundup: In an unexpected move, a Texas court issued a new ruling earlier this month in the case of a nonbiological lesbian mom suing her ex-partner for visitation rights to their child. Nancy Polikoff informs us that th...

• LGBT Parenting Roundup

  Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 05:04 in parenting, Puerto Rico, Florida, child custody, custody, politics and law, janet jenkins, lisa miller, jackson memorial hospital, second-parent adoption, lisa pond, janice langbehn

  Here’s a quick roundup before everyone takes off for the holiday: Politics and Law Nancy Polikoff offers her expert analysis of the decision this week in the Jenkins-Miller custody case I mentioned Saturday. Nancy has read through the ruling (...

• Breaking: A “First-of-Its-Kind” Ruling in Jenkins-Miller Custody Case

  Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 19:22 in parenting, custody, vermont, politics and law, janet jenkins, lisa miller, non-bio mom, non-bio, non-biological mom

  In what the Vermont Rutland Herald is calling “a first-of-its kind parent custody change,” Judge William Cohen of the Rutland Family Court yesterday granted sole custody of 7-year-old Isabella Miller to her non-biological mother, Janet Je...

• Montana Supreme Court Rules for Lesbian Mom

  Posted on Wednesday October 7th, 2009 at 13:42 in parenting, custody, montana, politics and law, missoula, nancy polikoff, barbara maniaci, james c. nelson, michelle kulstad

  Too good to wait for the weekly roundup: The Montana Supreme Court affirmed a trial court decision granting a “parental interest” to Michelle Kulstad, a lesbian mom who had been co-parenting two children legally adopted only by her ex-partner, Ba...

• LGBT Parenting Roundup

  Posted on Thursday September 10th, 2009 at 15:08 in texas, parenting, uruguay, adoption, child custody, custody, politics and law, glsen, torchwood, non-bio moms, non-biological moms, non-

  Politics and Law Uruguay’s Senate approved a bill to allow same-sex couples and unmarried opposite-sex ones to adopt children. It now goes to President Tabare Vazquez, who is expected to approve. Uruguay would then become the first Latin Ameri...

• Lesbian Moms vs. Gay Donor: A Cautionary Tale

  Posted on Monday July 20th, 2009 at 05:01 in child custody, custody, politics and law, family creation, sperm donors, donor insemination, ana sobrino, katherine alicea, ray janssen

  Two lesbian moms who had a child in Florida are in the midst of a custody battle with their known sperm donor. The donor, Ray Janssen, and his partner Craig were involved with the child’s life until the moms, Katherine Alicea and Ana Sobrino, m...

• More on Utah Custody Case

  Posted on Saturday July 11th, 2009 at 20:46 in parenting, Utah, child custody, custody, politics and law, gena edvalson, jana dickson

  I wrote yesterday about the Utah court that just denied parenting rights to non-bio mom Gena Edvalson. The court said the parenting contract she had signed with her former partner Jana Dickson “directly offends the state’s public policy that ...

• Utah Court Says Non-Bio Mom Has No Rights to Her Child

  Posted on Thursday July 9th, 2009 at 23:58 in Utah, child custody, visitation, custody, politics and law, utah supreme court, non-bio moms, non-biological moms, gena edvalson, jana dickson

  A couple of months ago, I mentioned the case of Gena Edvalson and Jana Dickson, a former couple now involved in a custody and visitation dispute over the three-year-old son they created together through assisted insemination and raised together until...

• Destiny Is Not Biology’s Child

  Posted on Thursday July 2nd, 2009 at 05:04 in parenting, custody, julianne moore, michael jackson, politics and law, annette bening, biological parents, non-biological parents, the kids are all right

  Once again, Nancy Polikoff is making me think this week. Yesterday, she managed to inform us of why media treatment of Michael Jackson may indeed have a direct impact on LGBT families: The news reports this morning about the circumstances of the conc...

• Yet Another Non-Bio Mom Wins Custody Appeal

  Posted on Friday June 26th, 2009 at 22:48 in parenting, California, child custody, custody, politics and law, non-bio moms, non-biological moms, charisma r.

  This just in: More good news for non-bio moms, to add to the Jenkins-Miller decision I posted about earlier: A California Court of Appeal has denied the latest appeal (PDF) of Kristina S., a biological, “ex-lesbian” mom who has been tryin...