Articles about Custody

5 March 2013
US: Pastor sentenced for kidnap of girl doesn’t regret keeping her from her lesbian mother 23 An American pastor who helped a woman flee to Central America to escape a custody battle with her lesbian partner has been sentenced for aiding in an international parental kidnapping.
25 February 2013
US: Kansas Supreme Court makes ‘groundbreaking’ ruling in same-sex custody case + In what was described as a "groundbreaking" ruling, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled on Friday that both same-sex parents of two children, were legally recognisable as the parents of those children.
21 February 2013
Russian Foreign Ministry to investigate US lesbian ex-wives who hid relationship to adopt child 8 The Russian Foreign Ministry says it will look into a custody case of a Russian child adopted by a US lesbian former couple who allegedly hid their marriage in order to adopt the child.
15 December 2012
Chile: Court apologises to judge denied access to her daughters because she is gay 3 The Chilean Government issued an apology to a lesbian judge who was denied custody of her three children because she is gay.
23 March 2012
Chile: Lesbian judge whose sexuality ‘put daughters at risk’ wins legal battle 7 A gay judge has won a custody case against the Chilean courts which had taken away her three daughters in 2004 believing her sexuality to put their development 'at risk'.
25 August 2011
Inter-American Court of Human Rights hears landmark lesbian custody case 4 Karen Atala had been told by Chilean courts that her children faced a risk of "social discrimination" because she was a lesbian, but the country has agreed to defer to the international court's decision.
11 April 2011
Lesbian judge in Chile fights for new US anti-discrimination laws 10 A lesbian judge from Chile is calling for new anti-discrimination laws to be introduced across North and South America.
6 December 2010
Custody battle lesbian couple: ‘We were horribly naive’ 38 The lesbian couple who lost their custody battle over the children they had with a gay man have spoken out for the first time.
18 February 2010
Kenyan police release gay men 3 Six men arrested in Kenya by police who suspected them of being gay have been released.
26 January 2010
Ex-gay mother given 30 days to appear before court + An American woman who refused her former lesbian partner access to their child has been ordered to appear before court within 30 days.
4 January 2010
Woman fails to hand child to lesbian ex-partner 6 A US woman who was ordered to hand over custody of her child to her lesbian ex-partner could be charged with parental abduction for failing to comply with a court order.
30 December 2009
Birth mother ordered to hand over child to lesbian ex-partner 72 The biological mother of a seven-year-old Vermont girl has been ordered by a court to hand her over to her former partner.
14 December 2009
Anti-gay singer Buju Banton arrested on drug charges 24 The Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton is in custody pending charges of drug offences.
10 October 2005
US Court Makes Landmark Decision Over Gay Parental Rights + The Supereme Court of Pennsylvania has affirmed a lower court ruling awarding custody of twins to Patricia Jones, a lesbian mother, ruling that Jones would provide a better home than her ex-partner, Ellen Boring (the children's biological parent).

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