Virginia and Vermont Conflict over Civil Unions Heads Back to the Virginia Court of Appeals
Today Liberty Counsel filed its brief before the Virginia Court of Appeals on behalf of Lisa Miller and her six-year-old daughter, Isabella, arguing that Virginia law prohibits the enforcement of a child custody order arising out of a Vermont same-sex civil union.
Last year after the Virginia Supreme Court refused to decide whether the Virginia Marriage Amendment prohibits recognition of the custody order, a Vermont court ruled that its custody order be enforced in favor of Janet Jenkins, a practicing lesbian who is not Isabella’s biological or adoptive mother . . .