http://www.omaha.com/article/20110403/NEWS01/704039881#high-court-takes-on-custody-rightsPublished Sunday April 3, 2011
By Paul Hammel
WORLD-HERALD BUREAU
LINCOLN — The couple were together for 15 years when they decided to have a child.
Together they prepared a nursery and selected a name as they listened to the “thump-thump” of a heartbeat and played music for the wondrous boy growing in his mother's womb.
After the child's birth, they shared the responsibilities of parenthood — feeding, bathing and clothing the baby and later helping with homework and attending parent-teacher conferences.
But the storybook family life ended in 2006, when the couple broke up. The split spawned a court fight over custody and visitation, with the conflicting claims about each parent's fitness and involvement that custody battles so often entail.
The legal dispute would be a lot less complicated if this couple were a traditional husband and wife.
But the mother of the child, Susan Schwerdtfeger, and her former partner, Teri Latham, are lesbians. Under Nebraska law they cannot marry, and, as the non-biological parent, Latham couldn't adopt the boy she helped raise.
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