In North Carolina as many as 300 lesbian couples have made a pilgrimage to the Durham County Courthouse with paper work in hand looking for a legal document allowing the adoption of the biological mother's child by the mother's "life partner." Melissa Jarrell and Senator Julia Boseman made that trip from New Hanover County to see a judge, a District Court Judge and his Clerk so that Sen. Boseman could adopt Melissa Jarrell's infant son and as with the others who have made this trip, the adoption, they were told, was official.
They were told wrong ... maybe.
North Carolina law does not allow the adoption of a child when the biological mother has not given up her rights to that child.
This is why there was a custody battle between Ms. Jarrell and Sen. Boseman, the law says the adoption was not legal but a District Court Judge said it was.
This is why Senator Boseman is in the bind she is in right now.
This is not about money. This is not about property. This is about parental rights and how it effects as many as 300 lesbian couples in North Carolina.
So how does a Clerk of Court and a District Court Judge circumvent the law in order to grant as many as 300 lesbians adoptive rights to a child that they have no legal right to?
You'll have to ask the Governor.
Transcript of the adoption hearing.
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