AN APPELLATE court last week overturned the first ruling in New York to grant child visitation rights in a same-sex partnership.
A unanimous panel of the Appellate Division, Second Department, ruled that Janis C., who had helped her domestic partner raise two children for three years, has no right under New York law to see those children now that the couple has split up.
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