Judge Gives Miller 30 Days to Transfer Daughter to Former Lesbian Lover or Face Arrest

Life Site News ^ | RUTLAND, VERMONT, January 28, 2010 | Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

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Friday January 29, 2010

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Judge Gives Miller 30 Days to Transfer Daughter to Former Lesbian Lover or Face Arrest

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

RUTLAND, VERMONT, January 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Ex-Lesbian Lisa Miller has been given 30 days to transfer custody of her daughter to her former lesbian partner, or possibly face criminal penalties.

Although Vermont Judge Richard Cohen has so far refused to issue an arrest warrant for Miller, he has set a deadline of February 23rd for the transfer to take place.

If Miller does not appear during that time, Cohen said on January 22, "I will consider all possible sanctions under the law," according to the local Rutland Herald.

Such sanctions could include arrest and imprisonment for up to five years, a punishment that has been repeatedly requested by Miller's former partner, Janet Jenkins.

Miller disappeared following a December order by Cohen to turn her daughter Isabella over to Jenkins on January 1. 

Miller gave birth to Isabella through artificial insemination while in a civil union with Jenkins in 2003. Her daughter has no biological relationship with Jenkins.

Cohen ordered the transfer of custody after several failed attempts to arrange visitations with Jenkins, which were opposed by Miller, who claimed that her daughter was psychologically traumatized by them.  Miller has stated that her daughter spoke of wanting to die after returning from one visit, and said that she had been forced to bathe naked with Jenkins.  Miller also claims that she was abused by Jenkins during their relationship.

Miller's Facebook page, as well as the Protect Isabella Coalition page, appear to have been removed from the internet.

Previous LifeSiteNews coverage:

Ex-Lesbian Lisa Miller "Disappears" as Date Passes for Court-Ordered Transfer of Daughter to Former Lover
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/jan/10010201.html

Exclusive Interview with Lisa Miller, Ex-Lesbian Fighting for Custody of Own Child against "Civil Union" Partner
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/oct/08102707.html

Lisa Miller Ordered to Hand Custody of Daughter to Former Lesbian Lover
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/nov/09112411.html

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[MrB]

Why is the judge doing this?

The target is marriage, and ultimately, Christianity itself.

The judge is overstepping here, but the point is to give the homosexual superior rights in our society, as a direct attack on the institution of marriage which God created "in the beginning".

[MrB]

It is possible to “go underground” and drop out.
Not a life I’d like, but I would do it if my kids were going to be taken otherwise.

[messierhunter]

If the "law" wants to try to take my daughter from me and give it to an ex with no biological relationship to my daughter, then it's time for some disobedience...



Under no circumstances should a judge be ruling this way. Either place the child in protective services if the parent is a danger, or cram it.

[Maelstorm]

Lisa Miller was counseled by Prince William County substance abuse counselor that she should consider that she was gay because she was having alcohol problems and marital problems that is the malpractice that led to this mess. We have the mental patients running many of these agencies that are supposed to help but are instead pushing a far left agenda in the name of medicine.

[999replies]

The Christian coalition my a$$, this will take hundreds of supporters with guns lining up in front of her.

[Maelstorm]

The law when it is wrong should be challenged. I’d never let my children be taken away by liberals.

[Maelstorm]

The law is wrong. The partner has not seen the child since shortly after she was born. She has no biological connection no financial and no emotional connection. This is a case of an affront to liberty. The law be damned.

[OldDeckHand]

"The judge is overstepping here, but the point is to give the homosexual superior rights in our society, as a direct attack on the institution of marriage which God created "in the beginning". "

The judge is NOT overstepping. He is following the statutory state and federal law as well as the established binding precedent.

This is a conservative website that encourages judges to follow the law. To do otherwise, would be legislating from the bench as an activist judge. Apparently, there are many here that think the judge should ignore the law and rule on philosophical grounds, not legal grounds. No thanks.

If you don't like the law, then change it. But, don't bitch about the judge when he does precisely what he should.

[tioga]

the mom is a liberal as well from the looks of things. she’s reaping what she sowed.

[driftdiver]

“There’s a surprising amount of contempt for law and order on FR....”

Thats because you don’t have any rights in America unless you have lots of money and a good lawyer. Radical judges and politicians show no respect for the law or justice.

[Maelstorm]

If Jenkins were a man the judge would not have ruled this way. I’ve never seen a judges grant custody to non biological fathers over biological mothers. It just never happens even in Vermont. This is a case of an activist judge overstepping. And even if it weren’t this law is an affront to liberty.

[OldDeckHand]

"The law be damned."

Ah, so you want the judiciary to follow the law when you agree with the law, but you want the law ignored when you disagree with the law? Do I need to point out your hypocrisy?

Judges need to follow the law - AT ALL TIMES.

[driftdiver]

‘In this country, contracts matter”

Only for the left to get their way.

[OldDeckHand]

"If Jenkins were a man the judge would not have ruled this way.

So, now you're a fortune-teller. Can you email me with tonight's winning lottery numbers?

I’ve never seen a judges grant custody to non biological fathers over biological mothers."

It's not even my area of practice, yet I know of MANY cases where that very thing has happened. While it's true that courts grant deference to the biological mothers, it is NOT without precedent that non-biological fathers occasionally custody and they are virtually always granted some form of visitation.

And let's remember, that this mother was initially granted sole physical custody, with the non-biological mother being granted visitation. It is only after the biological mother failed to obey the court's order, that the court stripped her custodial privileges. She only has herself to blame, no one else.

[Essie]

Don’t agree. The woman never adopted this child. It is a twisted contortion of the law that she should get custody or even visitation rights. She is not the biological mom or even the adopted mom. This is just sick!

And this is one of the consequences of “gay marriage.”

When have you heard of a ex-husband who was not the biological father having legal rights to a child?

[Sir_Ed]

Wow...I’m gobsmacked.

You actually think this ruling is correct???

Amazing. It may have followed some weird sort of “contract” but how on Earth can it be right? The lesbian wasn’t the child’s mother, instead she was just someone the birth mother had sex with, and the court is taking the baby from the birth mother, giving it to the sex partner, and you think that’s just??

I would have loved to have seen your commentary before Solomon regarding the baby and the two women:

“Your Honor, section 15(a) subsection (d) of the Mosaic law demands that we disregard the birth mother’s wish to keep the baby safe, therefore we must sever the child in two and give each separate part to each of the two women, thus keeping the contract intact.”

Yikes, I can’t even wrap my head around your bizarre comment.

The baby belongs with her birth mother, not the sex partner, regardless of some bizarre “contract.”

Ed

[Jack Hydrazine]

Ex-Lesbian = Hasbian

[Jeb21]

You have no sense of morals and no sense of justice.

Homosexuality is a sin that destroys nations. Its one of the things that causes depravity in society, and if allowed to flourish it will yield grave consequences.

Taking a child from a biological parent to someone who is not their biological parent, is evil. The mother is a good Christian woman and the ex is a perverted lesbian. Character makes all the difference when giving custody of a child to someone, and its obvious who has better character here.

You say its Lisa’s fault for missed deadlines, and it is true that there are legal consequences to that. But the punishment for missed deadline as implemented by the judge is ridiculously unjust. Turning the case around on her? Ruling in favor of her opponent? Why doesn’t a fine suffice? Answer me that.

Finally, you have said over, and over again that “the law is the law” as if by definition the law is always just. You and I both know that there are bad parts of the law in the US. Why it was just recently that a part of campaign finance reform was destroyed. Was CFR just when it was the law? Abortion is currently completely legal in the USA. Is that a just law?

Not all laws are good. The fact that there are good laws in the US doesn’t mean that bad laws don’t exist.

[B Knotts]

Lex iniusta non est lex.

[darkangel82]

Inmates running the asylum, as it has always been with liberals.