Legislation has made legal protection of our families more complicated DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writer taffet@dallasvoice.com Protecting our families used to mean making sure adoption papers for both parents were in order.
But as the attack on LGBTQ families has intensified over the last few years, attorney Karri Bertrand said, things have gotten more complicated.
For same-sex couples having children, Bertrand said, it’s more important than ever to have paperwork in place that defines who the legal parents are.
Karri Bertrand She said she’s currently dealing with a judge in another county who can’t wrap his head around the idea that there can be two mothers.