In a case that received national attention, the Arizona Supreme Court unanimously decided this morning that both women in a same sex marriage are legal parents to a child born during the marriage.
The ruling vacates the Court of Appeals opinion finding that the non-birth mother in the lesbian marriage did not have the same parental rights after the marriage was dissolved.
Justice Clint Bolick agreed with the other six justices as to the determination that Suzan was a legal parent - due to the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decisions - but wrote a dissenting opinion as to the effects on Arizona's paternity statutes.
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