HUNTER v. ROSE

SJC-11010.

463 Mass. 488 (2012)

AMY E. HUNTER v. MIKO ROSE (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

September 28, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Foskett ( Regina M. Hurley with him) for the defendant.

Karen L. Loewy ( Patience W. Crozier with her) for the plaintiff.

Ilona M. Turner & Catherine P. Sakimura , of California, & Neil Jacobs , Mary J. Edwards , & Darren T. Griffis , for Scott Altman & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: IRELAND, C.J., SPINA, CORDY, BOTSFORD, GANTS, & LENK, JJ.


IRELAND, C.J.

We granted an application for direct appellate review of the defendant, Miko Rose, to consider whether a judge in the Probate and Family Court erred when she recognized Rose's California registered same-sex domestic partnership (RDP) with the plaintiff, Amy Hunter, as the equivalent of marriage in the Commonwealth; determined that both parties were the legal parents of the child each bore; and, after dissolving the RDP, awarded physical custody of the...

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