{"id":2218,"date":"2008-12-09T10:04:50","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T10:04:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-09T10:04:50","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T10:04:50","slug":"virginia-court-lets-stand-ruling-on-child-visitation-rights-for-lesbian-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2008\/12\/virginia-court-lets-stand-ruling-on-child-visitation-rights-for-lesbian-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia court lets stand ruling on child-visitation rights for lesbian mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Supreme Court has let stand a ruling that Virginia must enforce a Vermont court order awarding child-visitation rights to a lesbian mom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc12.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=9479423\" target=\"_blank\">The decision let stand a victory for Janet Jenkins [pictured]<\/a>, who has been fighting for visitation rights since the dissolution of the civil union she and her partner obtained in Vermont in 2000. Jenkin&#8217;s partner gave birth to the daughter, Isabella, in 2002, and the child was at the center of a legal battle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/uncategorized\/mom-calls-herself-an-ex-lesbian-christian-and-continues-custody-battle-with-daughter-s-other-mom\/\">Jenkins married Lisa Miller in a Vermont civil union, and Miller became pregnant with their daughter via IVF<\/a>. Miller then left Jenkins and fled to Virginia with the baby &#8211; refusing to let Jenkins visit their daughter. A Vermont judge dissolved the civil union and granted visitation rights to Jenkins, although she did not adopt Isabella &#8211; now 5-years-old.<\/p>\n<p>When the Vermont court ordered visitation for Jenkins, <a href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/uncategorized\/virginia-supreme-court-affirms-custody-case-ruling-favoring-lesbian-mother\/\">Miller filed a new lawsuit in a Virginia court, using that state&#8217;s antigay marriage law<\/a> to have herself declared the child&#8217;s sole legal parent.<\/p>\n<p><cite>Image: Vyto Starinskas\/Rutland Herald<\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Supreme Court has let stand a ruling that Virginia must enforce a Vermont court order awarding child-visitation rights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1255,11058,238],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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