The Nebraska Supreme Court has reversed a ruling by a judge who denied a lesbian couple’s petition to adopt a child because he said a dictionary defined a “wife” as having a husband.
Last year, two married women sought to adopt a three-year-old child whom they had raised since her birth. According to the Omaha World-Herald, the two women married in California and 2008.
The case involved their efforts to adopt a young girl that had been born to one woman’s sister in 2017. The newspaper reported that the child’s biological mother relinquished custody, and her father never sought custody.
Dixon County Judge Douglas Luebe – who called himself “old-fashioned” during the adoption hearing – refused to allow the couple to adopt because he said