Justice for a parent and child
For more than two years, Janet Miller-Jenkins has been blocked see their daughter 4 years due to a nasty custody in conflict with their ex-spouse, was facing a court, so that regular visits. This week, the Virginia Court of Appeals a notice must be quite discreet, he estimated that under federal law, Virginia courts in honor of custody of her sister courts in Vermont, where Ms. Miller-Jenkins and his ex they came and asked him where a Court the dissolution of their union.
But the decision of the Court of Justice Miller-Jenkins v. Miller - Jenkins is a great thing, because what is at issue is a civil union is not a marriage. A lower court had refused Virginia, Vermont allows courts ordering Ms. Miller-Jenkins to visit her daughter, citing a state law prohibits any recognition of civil unions or other same-sex relations of the State .
Legally, this case is not difficult. Morally, it is even easier. Lisa and Janet Miller-Jenkins in a civil union in Vermont, had a child together - Lisa is the biological mother - and then shared. After a petition of the Vermont courts to dissolve the European Union and a provision that custody explicitly recognized as a parent, Janet, Lisa has her child, Isabelle, VA and began despite their very had requested. The Court Vermont in contempt, but Frederick County Circuit Judge John R. Prosser gave her sanctuary, ruling in 2004 that the right of Virginia, it was “the only biological mother and physical society” and that “only a legal rights, privileges, rights and obligations as a parent. ”
It was the law, as the Court of Appeal has now found - it was a victory for anti-gay clear policy on the law of command. Federal law prevents the VA interference in a court custody case pending in Vermont, or any other State. There is no exception for gays or lesbians. The idea is to prevent parents, the result does not like, they are the courts of the State to try their luck elsewhere. Qu’est-ce que ce soit, hateful things Virginia law that unions say on civilian matters are irrelevant, its courts in honor of the Order of Vermont, that the courts.
Unfortunately, other appeals are likely, so that in future clear victory before a court can not Janet Miller-Jenkins be closer to her daughter. This is untrue. Your illegal separation has lasted far too long already.
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