http://www.mombian.com/2007/07/17/non-bio-moms-gain-rights-in-the-beaver-state/ Sustenance for Lesbian Moms Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:39:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.mombian.com/2007/07/17/non-bio-moms-gain-rights-in-the-beaver-state/comment-page-1/#comment-62632 Mombian: Sustenance for Lesbian Moms » Blog Archive » Weekly Political Update Sat, 21 Jul 2007 02:25:02 +0000 http://mombian.com/2007/07/17/non-bio-moms-gain-rights-in-the-beaver-state/#comment-62632 [...] A Circuit Court judge in Multnomah County, Oregon ruled that a non-biological mother should receive automatic legal parental status over her partner’s biological child—that is, without needing to go through adoption procedures. More in my full post on the topic. [...] [...] A Circuit Court judge in Multnomah County, Oregon ruled that a non-biological mother should receive automatic legal parental status over her partner’s biological child—that is, without needing to go through adoption procedures. More in my full post on the topic. [...]

]]> http://www.mombian.com/2007/07/17/non-bio-moms-gain-rights-in-the-beaver-state/comment-page-1/#comment-61113 Anonymous Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:02:35 +0000 http://mombian.com/2007/07/17/non-bio-moms-gain-rights-in-the-beaver-state/#comment-61113 I would like to further intensify the recommendation that even in Massachusetts where both parents are on the birth certificate it is imperative that you co-adopt your children. Recent decisions in Mass courts such as AH v. MP and Smith v. Jones show that non-biological and non-adoptive parents, even if the child was born into the relationship, intended to be the child of both partners, both names are on the birth certificate and they have been parenting the child together, visitation and all parental rights can still be denied if you do not co-adopt. You must co-adopt, so that you don't have to go through the pain of intense litigation and the profound loss that ours and many families have gone through if the relationship ends. I would like to further intensify the recommendation that even in Massachusetts where both parents are on the birth certificate it is imperative that you co-adopt your children. Recent decisions in Mass courts such as AH v. MP and Smith v. Jones show that non-biological and non-adoptive parents, even if the child was born into the relationship, intended to be the child of both partners, both names are on the birth certificate and they have been parenting the child together, visitation and all parental rights can still be denied if you do not co-adopt. You must co-adopt, so that you don’t have to go through the pain of intense litigation and the profound loss that ours and many families have gone through if the relationship ends.

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