The Virginia Supreme Court Enforces Vermont’s Custody and Visitation Order Regarding a Same-Sex Couple’s Child: Why an Anti-Same-Sex-Marriage State Recognized a Same-Sex Union For This Purpose
Joanna Grossman has this commentary on Findlaw. She writes:
This case has been closely watched – and rightfully so. Perhaps better than any other, it depicts the perils and pitfalls of a national legal landscape in which states have such stark disagreements over the regulation of same-sex families. Lisa and Janet’s ordinary struggle for custody of a child they both love becomes an extraordinary one because they are both women and because the two states they inhabit, Virginia and Vermont, represent opposite extremes on the same-sex marriage spectrum.