Same-Sex Custody Battle Frustrating to Non-Biological Mother

Lisa Lewis wants to see the child she considers her daughter.

It’s been more than a year since she saw or spoke to the girl, who is now 7, and a custody battle between Ms. Lewis and the girl’s biological mother has been going on for almost two years.

Ms. Lewis, 41, and Jeannette Rowan, both of Sharon, lived together as a couple for 11 years before splitting up when the child they’d raised together was 5 years old, Ms. Lewis said.

The couple wasn’t married, but courts have found Ms. Lewis has standing to seek custody of the child.

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Custody Fight Continues Over Ex-Lesbian's Child

The battle continues between a homosexual activist and her former lesbian partner over who will control the now heterosexual, Christian woman's biological daughter. It's the latest twist in a complicated story.

Lisa Miller is a former lesbian who became a Christian, left the homosexual lifestyle, and took her biological daughter with her. Miller's former partner, Janet Jenkins, has been using a since-dissolved Vermont civil union to try to claim parental rights to Miller's daughter. Earlier this week, a Virginia civil court ruled that Jenkins must go to juvenile and domestic relations court to seek enforcement of a Vermont visitation order.

Attorney Mat Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel, is representing Miller in her efforts to protect her six-year-old daughter. He says the former Vermont civil union should be rendered meaningless in Virginia's courts by Virginia's 2007 marriage protection amendment.

Custody Fight Continues Over Ex-Lesbian's Child

The battle continues between a homosexual activist and her former lesbian partner over who will control the now heterosexual, Christian woman's biological daughter. It's the latest twist in a complicated story.

Lisa Miller is a former lesbian who became a Christian, left the homosexual lifestyle, and took her biological daughter with her. Miller's former partner, Janet Jenkins, has been using a since-dissolved Vermont civil union to try to claim parental rights to Miller's daughter. Earlier this week, a Virginia civil court ruled that Jenkins must go to juvenile and domestic relations court to seek enforcement of a Vermont visitation order.

Attorney Mat Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel, is representing Miller in her efforts to protect her six-year-old daughter. He says the former Vermont civil union should be rendered meaningless in Virginia's courts by Virginia's 2007 marriage protection amendment.

Lesbian's Children To Be Returned To UK

An Ontario judge has ruled that a woman who fled to Canada from the United Kingdom with her two adopted daughters must return with them to allow her former lesbian partner full access to the children under what amounts to a joint custody agreement.

Justice Jennifer Mackinnon, of Ontario Superior Court, ordered Connie Springfield to return to England with her two daughters, 8 and 6, whom she adopted with her long-time partner Sarah Courtney six years ago. Ms. Springfield had spirited the two children to Canada late last year in what the judge called a "long thought out, deceptive method of her removal of the children."

The lesbian couple had broken up five years earlier and had, apparently amicably, continued to share custody of the children until Ms. Springfield took them on what was supposed to be a visit to family members in Ottawa last December, but which she acknowledged planning for some time as a permanent move.