Michigan’s State Supreme Court engaged in what NBC News described as “breaking new ground” this week in a case involving a lesbian couple and the son they raised together for a time beginning in 2008. And breaking new ground is putting it mildly because this ruling could open the door to turning much of the country’s child custody laws on their heads. The case involves Rachel Haas and her former partner Carrie Pueblo. In 2008 they were living together (prior to gay marriage being legalized) and Haas became impregnated via in vitro fertilization. She gave birth to a boy and the two raised him until they broke up a few years later, though Pueblo remained involved in the boy’s life, helping to care for him. That ended in 2017 when Haas requested that Pueblo no longer have contact with the boy. Pueblo went to court demanding the opportunity to seek custody and now the Supreme Court has apparently sided with her.Read More
Michigan’s dubious same-sex parental rights ruling
