In a complicated ruling issued on September 12, the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, an intermediate appellate court, ruled that Judge Eleanore Garber of the Jefferson Family Court erred when she granted joint custody and a second parent adoption at the behest of a lesbian couple in 2004, but that the birth mother’s attempt to have the adoption ruling nullified was barred by the statute of limitations.
However, the appeals court found that there is no statute of limitations barring reconsideration of the joint custody ruling, so it returned the case of the Family Court for reconsideration….
Read the entire blog entry by Prof. Arthur Leonard at Leonard Link.