Schizophrenic Michigan Family Law – Out-of-State Adoption is Stronger than Out-of-State Same-Sex Marriage in Custody Disputes

On October 17, two different panels of the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled in cases where lesbian co-parents were battling over child custody.  In one, a birth mother prevailed because the court refused to recognize the couple’s Canadian same-sex marriage.  In the other, however, the court found that the state’s full-faith-and-credit obligation required recognition of an out-of-state second-parent adoption that could not have been done in-state, and affirmed a sole custody award to the second … <Read More>