Adoption and Parenting

Adoption and parenting case in which Catholic Charities sued Illinois to force the state to renew a contract for foster care services while excluding couples in civil unions from being eligible foster parents.

Case seeking custodial rights for a non-biological mother whose ex-partner used Ohio's constitutional amendment in an attempt to have her barred from seeing her children.

Case seeking to enforce the presumed-parentage statute that provides a birth certificate listing both parents for children born to all married couples.

Case representing gay fathers who were refused a birth certificate for their newly adopted son by the office of the Louisiana State Registrar.

Case in which a same-sex married couple sued the Connecticut Department of Public Health because it refused to list both men as fathers of their twins born through a gestational surrogate.

Amicus brief in support of challenge to Arkansas' Act 1, which prohibits unmarried individuals living with a sexual partner from adopting or fostering children.