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Source: Advocate , Law.com , Gay City News The federal government won't recognize same-sex couples, but it should pay benefits to their children, a Justice Department (DOJ) opinion released June 9 has concluded. According to the opinion, federal law does not prohibit the Social Security Administration...

Source: Richmond Times-Union , Northern Virginia Daily , Associated Press Richmond, VA -- A Virginia Supreme Court ruling this morning means a Vermont child custody order in a failed civil union must be enforced here even though same-sex marriages are barred in Virginia, but the right-wing lawyers who...

Source: Haaretz , Scopical The State of Israel has agreed for the first time to register an overseas adoption by a gay couple and to grant the child Israeli citizenship, Haaretz reports. The landmark case involves a Cambodia-born boy, now eight years old, who was adopted in 2000 in the United States...

Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch , Virginian-Pilot The Virginia Supreme Court heard arguments this morning in a long-running custody battle over a 6-year-old girl and two women who entered into a civil union in Vermont but then later broke up. Lisa Miller and Janet Jenkins were Virginia residents in 2000...

Source: Irish Times , Irish Independent , Press Association , RTE News Dublin -- The Dublin High Court has ruled that a lesbian couple living together in a long-term committed relationship with a child can be regarded as a de facto family enjoying rights under the European Convention on Human Rights...

Source: Ha'aretz and Reuters JERUSALEM -- Israel's attorney general said on Sunday that same sex-couples will be allowed to adopt children that are not biologically linked to either partner. Meni Mazuz decided that gay adults will be allowed to adopt the biological or adopted child of their partner...