If i recall, the first court, in Virginia, granted custody of the child to LM.
This article seems to bring some fullness into the overall situation, about bad ideas, consequences, and victims.
It was about testing new law, establishing legal precedents.
The timing caught LM and her child up as it would not have in all history, in any country.
“The Tragic Case of Lisa Miller and the Consequences of Redefining Family”
https://www.christianheadlines.com/colu ... amily.html
.. In 2004, Miller and Jenkins asked the Vermont Family Court to legally dissolve their civil union. The court agreed and awarded Miller primary custody. However, in an unprecedented move, the court awarded visitation rights to Jenkins.
To that point, though she had agreed to pay child support, Jenkins had no legally recognized parental relationship with Isabella.
She had only lived with Isabella during the first year of the child’s life, but the court treated Jenkins as if she were a biological or adoptive parent.
It’s difficult to imagine a court doing this, for example, in the case of an unrelated live-in boyfriend.
Later that year, a Virginia court ruled that Miller was Isabella’s sole legal parent.
However, Jenkins appealed, arguing that the Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act required Virginia to honor the Vermont court’s ruling. Also at play was the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, a federal statute designed to prevent states from being forced to recognize the civil unions of other states. Despite all this, in the end, the Virginia Supreme Court sided with Jenkins. ..
From a Christian perspective, a moral perspective, a human+humane perspective, focusing on the best for the child, JJ could have and would have supported LM as the biological and competent mother. They might have avoided years of no-contact. This, without any legal drama.
The political bloc is focused on prevailing in courtrooms. Self-sacrificial love is not on the radar.
