Today, New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, drastically changed the laws regarding the definition of “parent” for purposes of custody and visitation litigation. According to the holding in Brooke...
Category: Same-sex Marriage
History was made at the United States Supreme Court today as the highest court in the land ruled that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to legally marry, in all 50 states and Puerto Rico. In doing so, the United...
New York Times on Custody Issues Facing Same-Sex Couples
September 13, 2014
In an article dated September 12, 2014, the New York Times addressed one of the many custody and visitation problems facing same-sex couples. The article, titled “Parenthood Denied by the Law-After a Same-Sex Couple’s...
Today, the United States Supreme Court decided two landmark cases regarding same-sex marriage. The first case, Hollingsworth v. Perry, sought involved the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8. Proposition...
Preview of Today’s Supreme Court DOMA case
March 27, 2013
Amy Howe of SCOTUSblog has written a great preview of the constitutional challenges to the Defense of Marriage Act (or DOMA) being heard today in the Supreme Court in the case of United States v. Windsor (No.: 12-307). The...