The last state to ban adoptions by gay men and lesbians conceded defeat Friday. Florida’s Attorney General, Bill McCollum, said there will be no appeal of the case that led to the overturning of the state’s 33-year-old law. The case, decided by Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal, involved licensed foster parent Frank Martin Gill…
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New York’s highest court ruled 7-0 yesterday (May 4) that a non-biological mother is a legal parent and entitled to seek custody and visitation. The New York Court of Appeals based its decision on a Vermont civil union that the non-biological mother and her former partner entered into before the birth of their son. The…
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