Law has not been updated since same sex marriage became legal
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Idaho Supreme Court refused custody and visitation rights to a woman who helped raise the child of a former partner due to lack of revised laws.
According to The Spokesman Review, the two women raised the child together until 2012 when they decided to split up. However, following a rift two years ago the biological mother refused her partner contact with the child.
The woman appealed to the courts to allow her visitation rights to the child but the court ruled that she had no parental rights over the 7-year-old child because it was her former partner that had been artificially inseminated and had carried the baby and because the two women had never been married.
A similar case is being heard in the Mississippi Supreme Court after a lesbian’s appeal to obtain custody of two boys she raised was dismissed by the lower court.
In Thailand, the Thai child custody law does not recognize same-sex parents. Same sex marriage is still illegal and parental rights are only granted to married couples of the opposite sex.
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