Same-Sex Divorce Challenges the Legal System
Most States Lack Law, Precedent To Settle Issues
By Dafna Linzer
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 2, 2008

When her three-year-old marriage broke up, the 44-year-old doctor assumed she and her ex would split their property and jointly parent their two children. Her stay-at-home spouse wanted sole custody and the right to move the children out of Massachusetts.

In pretrial motions, both parents made the same argument to a judge: The children should be with me; I'm their mother. the rest