VT. JUDGE CLAIMS CONTROL OF SAME-SEX CUSTODY FIGHT: From the Washington Post

[Update on a story we've featured here before. --Eve]

A Vermont court has asserted its jurisdiction over a same-sex couple's contentious custody battle, finding Lisa Miller-Jenkins of Winchester, Va., in contempt for failing to permit her former partner to visit 2-year-old Isabella.
Rutland Family Court Judge William D. Cohen imposed no punishment. He said his goal was to ensure compliance with his earlier order granting Janet Miller-Jenkins visitation until custody of the child is determined.

The dispute between the women, who exchanged vows in Vermont in 2000, has been described by gay-rights advocates and opponents as a test of that state's civil union law, which took effect in 2000 and offers same-sex couples the legal protections of marriage under state law.

The case has sparked a jurisdictional squabble between courts in two states with decidedly different laws concerning the legal rights of same-sex couples.

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