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Following the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling striking down Michigan's ban on same-sex marriage, Michigan courts have been granting adoption rights to same-sex couples. In September 2019, a judge within Michigan allowed discrimination against LGBT individuals adopting children within adoption agencies, on the technical legal grounds of "fundamental ...
DeBoer v. Snyder is a lawsuit that was filed by April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse on January 23, 2012, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, challenging Michigan's ban on adoption by same-sex couples so they can jointly adopt their children.
The DeBoers, however, believing that the most important issue was the best interest of the child, rather than parental rights, attempted to complete the adoption. Clausen and Schmidt, who were married in 1992, [3] continued in the courts to get the child returned to them. The DeBoers, who had named the baby "Jessica," battled to keep the child ...
On September 18, 2015, the Supreme Court of Alabama reversed lower courts' recognition of an adoption judgment granted to a same-sex couple over their three children in 2007 by the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia. The court ruled that the Georgia state court had misapplied Georgia state law in granting the adoption.
Same-sex marriage has been legal in Michigan since the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges on June 26, 2015. On March 21, 2014, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ruled the state's denial of marriage rights to same-sex couples unconstitutional.
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