Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On Tuesday, GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney released his birth certificate ...

The ruling Thursday marks one of the first family law changes in providing equal rights to gay and lesbian couples following the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling recognizing same-sex marriages.

They have filled out the new form and expect both their names will be recorded on Maeve’s new birth certificate. Massachusetts is one of only five states with a gender neutral parentage form.

The court overruled Pulaski County Circuit Judge Tim Fox’s 2015 decision to allow same-sex couples to have both their names on a child’s birth certificate.