Lesbian Tina Burch wins custody of her non-biological child
Lesbian Tina Burch wins custody of her non-biological child A divided West Virginia Supreme Court awarded custody of a 5-year-old boy to Tina Burch, his deceased mother's lesbian partner. Christina Smarr, Burch's partner, died in a 2002 car accident. The women had lived together since 1998, more than a year before the child was born. Within hours of Smarr's death, relatives took the boy and handed him over to grandparents Paul and Janet Smarr. A Family Court judge granted custody to Burch, but a Clay County circuit judge ruled that state law doesn't give a homosexual the right to legal guardianship of a former partner's child. Today's decision overturned that ruling.�[Date: 18-Jun-05 ]
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