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Nancy Polikoff is a legal scholar and advocate focusing on family law issues affecting LGBTQ individuals and families. Her work addresses the evolving legal landscape surrounding same-sex parenting, adoption, and parental rights, highlighting challenges faced by LGBTQ parents in child welfare and family law systems. Polikoff examines discrimination against LGBTQ foster and adoptive parents, the impact of child welfare policies on marginalized families, and legal disputes involving parental status and custody. Her publications often analyze court cases, child welfare practices, and the intersection of sexual orientation with family law, aiming to inform legal reform and advocacy efforts related to LGBTQ family rights.
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Fulton v. City of Philadelphia: The Challenge of Fighting BOTH Discrimination Against LGBT Foster/Adoptive Parents AND Excess State Removal of Children from Their Parents
LGBT FAMILY LAW INSTITUTE 2020
Fulton v.
City of Philadelphia: The Challenge of Fighting BOTH Discrimination
Against LGBT Foster/Adoptive Parents AND Excess State Removal of Children from
Their Parents
Presented by Nancy Polikoff, American University Washington College of…
What ELSE is wrong with Philadelphia Catholic Charities?
Catholic Charities in Philadelphia refuses to licenses same-sex couples as foster and adoptive parents. That stance cost them their contract with the city — in other words public funding — to serve as an agency that certifies foster and adoptive…
Yes, Sarah and Jennifer Hart played the lesbian card
By now I have read so much about the white lesbian mothers who murdered their six adopted black children, Cierra, Jeremiah, Abigail, Markis, Hannah, and Devonte Hart, that I did not think I would have anything to add. But I…
NY appellate court gets Gunn v. Hamilton wrong
The New York Times and the New Yorker are among the outlets that extensively covered Kelly Gunn’s court action asserting parentage of Abush, a child adopted by her ex-partner Circe Hamilton. The trial court ruled against Gunn, finding that the…
We need to talk about LGBT parents who lose their children to the child welfare system
I have written about lesbian mothers, and LGBT parents more broadly, in many contexts. But from now on I’ll be concentrating on one context…child welfare proceedings that remove children from their parents and that can result in termination of parental…
Who says a child's two parents have to be a "couple"? Not Canada
With many states requiring same-sex couples to marry before they can both be parents of the same child, it’s great to read this story out of Ontario, Canada, about two women committing to parentage without ever having had a conjugal…
Williams Institute marks a very personal 40th anniversary
I want to express my deep thanks to the Williams Institute at UCLA Law School for honoring the 40th anniversary of a law review article that Nan Hunter and I co-wrote and published in 1976 entitled The Custody Rights …
It's a trifecta! Massachusetts find nonbio mom to be full legal parent
After wins in New York and Maryland, Massachusetts becomes the third state in three months to recognize the reality of life for children planned for and then raised by same-sex couples. Today’s win in Partanen v. Gallagher is the…
Beyond Marriage Ten Years Later
The Beyond Marriage statement from 2006 has a new home on the web here. We’ll be talking about it at the CLAGS After Marriage conference tomorrow.