In 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in its Obergefell decision that American same-sex couples are entitled to marry “on the same terms and conditions as opposite-sex couples.” With this decision, the [...]
A recent decision from Maryland’s highest court highlights the rapidly evolving state of the law relating to gay and lesbian parents. The Maryland opinion in Conover. v. Conover also has a place [...]
The Supreme Court’s decision in V.L. v. E.L. (March 7, 2016) dealt with children born to one lesbian mother (E.L.) and then adopted by her lesbian partner (V.L.) with whom she had been [...]
Kate and Shelly were happily married in the District of Columbia in 2012. Soon after their wedding, they moved to Virginia to be closer to Shelly’s family. Unfortunately, the relationship began to deteriorate [...]
