Legal Challenge

(Fox News) - The Arkansas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is challenging a new state law banning unmarried couples from adopting, which some say was aimed at same-sex couples. The law was approved in November’s general election, but a lawsuit claims the act is unconstitutional and its language was misleading to voters.

One grandmother who lives with her same-sex partner says the new law will prevent her from adopting her grandchild, even though she is the only relative able and willing to do so.

Attorney Marie Bernarde Miller of Little Rock, Arkansas says the law, "violates the state's legal duty to place the best interest of children above all else."