Over the past 15 years, thousands of same-sex couples in California have adopted children through a state-approved procedure called second-parent adoption, in which a biological parent's unmarried ...

For many LGBTQ+ people, starting to think about family-building can feel both exciting and overwhelming. There’s often a sense of real possibility paired with big questions about where to start, ...

This year, it is arguable that Dumont v. Lyon is one of the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan's most recognizable cases. In it, the ACLU has claimed that Michigan unfairly allowed publicly ...

With the political tide about to turn in Washington, family law practitioners in Maryland are fielding calls from same-sex parents worried that the new Donald Trump administration could dismantle ...

Following the demise of a Mississippi law that was the last in the country to ban gay and lesbian couples from adoption, same-sex couples now legally have the right to adopt a child in every state ...

Although gay couples’ legal right to marry has been settled, their right to adopt has not been. While there are no barriers to gay adoption in several states, other jurisdictions put up various legal ...

BILOXI, MS (WLOX) - Several days after a deadline passed to appeal a federal ruling against a Mississippi state ban on same-sex adoptions, a couple on the Coast is beaming. Rebecca and Andrea Bickett ...