Attorney George Perrett speaks to the Michigan Supreme Court during oral arguments in an LGBTQ child custody case on April 4, 2023. Attorney Reh Starks, left, takes notes while Perrett speaks.

Usually, under Michigan law, a child conceived by a married woman through assisted reproductive technology with consent from her husband is considered the child of both of them.

Lawyers for Pueblo argued the court should acknowledge both women as parents deserving of custody rights of the child in recognition that Pueblo, while she was not married to Haas and didn’t ...

The Michigan Supreme Court ruled 5-2 that a non-biological LGBTQ+ parent has the legal right to argue for custody of a child they raised with a same-sex partner before same-sex marriage was ...

A natural parent is not defined in Michigan’s Child Custody Act, but the appeals court has previously defined a parent as someone related to a child by blood, rather than adoption.