The U.S. Supreme Court has let stand a ruling that Virginia must enforce a Vermont court order awarding child-visitation rights to a mother’s former lesbian partner. The high court Monday declined to hear the case of Lisa Miller, who claimed that the Virginia Supreme Court improperly ignored a... 

  The Proposition 8 debate has set me to thinking about the related issue of adoption by same-sex couples. In many places in the U.S., it is illegal for gay couples to petition for adoption, and all but pointless in still more. There is widespread disfavor for the idea, even among professed “anti-homophobes.” I... 

Gay rights supporters scored another major victory in court Tuesday, when a state judge in Miami tossed out a statute that had for more than 30 years barred gay people in Florida from adopting children. The decision came after a week packed full of dueling expert testimony over whether any evidence supports... 

We were going to write you up a nice “The Florida Supreme Court for Dummies” post, but in its research found itself caught up in tangents. Our interest was spurred in part by yesterday’s overturn of the gay adoption by a Miami judge (as well as by future Crist appointments). The issue... 

A Miami-Dade circuit judge decided Tuesday that a Florida man’s sexual orientation should not preclude him from adopting his two foster children, effectively ruling unconstitutional a decades-old state law barring gays and lesbians from adopting children. Judge Cindy Lederman, a child welfare judge,... 

by ANDREW WILLIAMS I’ve been with my partner Steve for ten years. We talked about one day adopting children from when we first started dating and after our civil partnership in 2006 decided to start the process. The assessment is quite rigorous, rightly so, but the main criterion is to be able...