By Michael Kiefer | The Republic | azcentral.com
Same-sex couples have the right to marry in Arizona, and the courts permit 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.
