A dispute before the state’s high court weighs what happens when LGBTQ parents break up—especially before marriage was legal.

Priya Shahani and Carmen Edmonds were in an 11-year relationship, and three kids carried the hyphenated last names of the two when they were together.

Justices Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor, in particular, wrestled with the themes and central message of a children’s book called “Uncle Bobby’s Wedding” as they consider