If there was any question that gay and lesbian couples need legal protections, check out this case in West Virginia....
Grandparents seeking custody of child
By The Associated Press
Wednesday March 09, 2005
MORGANTOWN -- A woman seeking custody of her dead girlfriend's son cannot be recognized as a "psychological parent," even though the two women planned the pregnancy, shopped together for the baby and lived as a family for more than two years, a lawyer told the state Supreme Court.
Attorney Donald Bischoff, representing the maternal grandparents who also want custody, said Tuesday that psychological parenting status can be granted in a custody fight only when no biological parents exist. In the case involving the son of the late Christina Smarr, the biological father is still alive, so Smarr's partner has no rights...... (cont.)
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