Thanks. Have been trying to sort out how to condense all that complex legal stuff into easy-to-follow explanations. (IANAL. But I read legal codes for fun. It's a gamer thing, I think. Can't find the loopholes if you don't know the rules.)
I think a lot of the blogging about this is swapping around phrasing and semantics as we try to find ways to describe the whys and hows of something that seems glaringly obvious to us.
re:parenting law-- There have been paternity suits. And the ruling is: if you're married at the time of birth, that kid is the legal child of both parents. No dodging that one; genetics are irrelevant to that aspect of parenthood. It's one of the responsibilities of a marriage.
It's been an issue in a couple of cases where there was a divorce or death, and someone wanted to sue the bio-father for child support. (And my memory is very very blurry on details. What I remember is "the courts got all twisty;" I don't remember a damn thing about the actual results other than a complexity that made my head hurt.)
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Date: 2008-11-15 10:18 pm (UTC)Thanks. Have been trying to sort out how to condense all that complex legal stuff into easy-to-follow explanations. (IANAL. But I read legal codes for fun. It's a gamer thing, I think. Can't find the loopholes if you don't know the rules.)
I think a lot of the blogging about this is swapping around phrasing and semantics as we try to find ways to describe the whys and hows of something that seems glaringly obvious to us.
re:parenting law--
There have been paternity suits. And the ruling is: if you're married at the time of birth, that kid is the legal child of both parents. No dodging that one; genetics are irrelevant to that aspect of parenthood. It's one of the responsibilities of a marriage.
It's been an issue in a couple of cases where there was a divorce or death, and someone wanted to sue the bio-father for child support. (And my memory is very very blurry on details. What I remember is "the courts got all twisty;" I don't remember a damn thing about the actual results other than a complexity that made my head hurt.)