who is not married to the father was in a civil union with this father this case is not a case about the civil union act it's not a case about the suit you partner chris believe that for as a non parent can ask for parental allocation if they have custody of the child at the time of the filing of the pleading is not the section referring to whether the child is current fed only if you she is not in the physical bad would not be the case your honor the statute we're here to interpret busy doing now age and dissolution of marriage act this is a case that was brought in family court in madison county this is about the i mean d n a not the civil union act another if you if you have your wall for a political solution and that is searching for terms like child children minor and parents the only time you're going to find those terms mentioned in the civil union act i believe that thousand and fourteen and just to put this criminology in perspective chris ferguson and nashar entered into their civil union late in two thousand and thirteen and i might also add at the time they entered into a civil union there was no legal impediment to them actually being married runs a man one with a woman they could have been married it was absolute their choice not to be married nobody's suggesting that they have to be married i mean i do i understand that for a variety of reasons political religious psychological whatever are free the freedom of choice you don't want to be married you want to be in the civil union that's fine but they just because you decide to do it doesn't mean you get every single right that other people have when you don't have values south of being married revisions the way intended for stepparent two partners to a civil union why didn't they see that when they mentioned civil union partners in other portions additionally the civil union act itself has been modified i believe it was shortly after gay marriage was a part of me same sex marriage i apologize with me was that there was an indication that you could take it for the movement and convert it into one marriage if you wanted to if you were instantly union it could then become a a civil union but if you're in that if you're in a civil union as opposed to a marriage it doesn't mean that you get every single right that a married couple would have i mean if he they feel like this is almost a re really truly upon a parent's right to guide and make decisions for the child if you're married and you get to be worse in can't figure things out on your own you're essentially inviting the state into your living room into your kitchen to help you figure down to decide what's best for the includes civil union partners is it if we do that essentially what we're saying is that the civil union act trumps the language of beyond d n a and this is something that the legislature should decide not a court i'm sorry elephant in the room i mean obviously this case just has you know is peppered with sort of interesting constitutional constitutional issues that you really don't need to get beyond the  raj degree i mean it was for elderly people who didn't want to get remarried if any one of these pension benefits that they might have had from a deceased prior spouse i mean clearly it would be there and as a response to the time period when they were trying to pass same sex marriage in the way before it was pounds because it was three years earlier and it obviously would have the effect of for people who don't want to enter into a marriage of a braiding a petition suit or an issue over mai some degree got decided on other grounds because the partner who wanted to share our road was probably the biggest asset couldn't do it anyway because it was a medical practice but it's really it's not my job and it's not the court's job to go be on the  almost twelve years old ok and you lead the child to live with chris yes  whether or not judge made its judgment or only made a finding that the language of the civil union act but the reason that chris focused and had standing if you look at it it's essentially an appendix which became the common mob record because the procedure regarding this the question was was we're finding made that because of the language of the civil union act that she was a step parent i apologized to the military trying to trying to get everything in five minutes before it was drafted by news focus lens then coun say we find that there was standing there is no time for me i'm looking at the it were there seventeen order and i have it because it was attached to my mind is there let me ask you this is that's one of the reasons i thought there was another order we didn't get to the other issues regarding the pleading or whether or not we're the only reason i think that we have it just because it's in the certified question good at this citation  i would not disagree with you on that but if it's a survivor than has to do with rights relative to disturb my for not necessarily to reach into the relationship that the survivor may have had with a former wife or a former spouse or