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A Vermont judge has issued an arrest warrant for the missing mother in a two-state, same-sex custody battle.
Family Court Judge William Cohen ordered the arrest of Lisa Miller, who has refused to turn over her 7-year-old daughter Isabella pursuant to the judge’s custody order favoring Miller’s former partner, Janet Jenkins, reports the Rutland Herald .
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A Vermont judge today said he would give Lisa Miller 30 days to appear with her 7-year-old daughter before he would consider ordering her jailed for contempt, reports the Associated Press .
Miller, whose last known address is in Bedford County, is the biological mother of the girl at the center of a two-state custody dispute [...]

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A Vermont judge has ruled in favor of the non-biological mother in a two-state battle arising from a same-sex partnership, reports the Rutland Herald .
The dispute between Janet Jenkins of Vermont and Lisa Miller of Virginia has played out in courtrooms of both states for several years.  The couple split in 2003 and have fought [...]

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The Supreme Court of Virginia may yet reach the merits of the effort of a lesbian mother to sever the parental rights of her former partner.
“May” because attorneys for the partner, Janet Jenkins, contend that Virginia law bars consideration of issues in a second Virginia appeal that already were determined in an earlier appeal.
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Virginia Solicitor General William E. Thro unsuccessfully asserted the sovereignty of the commonwealth in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the appeal of a lesbian mother who is attempting to sever the parental rights of her former partner.
In an amicus brief in the case of Miller-Jenkins v. Miller-Jenkins, Record No. 06-1110, Thro cited four [...]

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