Court: Custody is the issue, not second-parent adoption
The Iowa high court has sent a custody dispute between two former female partners over their two children back to a district court, rejecting the lower court's stance that the nonbiological mother's second-parent adoption was invalid and it had no jurisdiction over the matter. "We find it was inappropriate for the district court to collaterally attack the adoptions," the high court wrote in its decision. Des Moines Register (Iowa), The/Associated Press (01/18)