(Maricopa AZ) County Attorney only helps Straight Couples

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Same-sex couples have the right to marry in Arizona, and the courts allow them to adopt children as couples.

But the Maricopa County Attorney's Office will not extend its adoption-assistance services to them, as one couple discovered in a Facebook confrontation with County Attorney Bill Montgomery.

Lenora and Leticia Reyes-Petroff, both 34, married in California in 2013. In early 2014, Leticia gave birth to a child, conceived through artificial insemination.

But since Arizona, like many states, did not recognize same-sex marriages, and since state adoption law stated that only a husband and wife could jointly adopt a child, Lenora could not legally be considered a parent to their son.

[dbackjon]

Leticia and Lenora are good friends - they met playing softball in our league.

I was able to use a contact at the AZ Republic to get this story out there.