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N.Y. Appellate Division revives child support order against lesbian co-parent

By Alliance Alert

Leonard Link: "A five-member panel of the New York Appellate Division, 2nd Department, unanimously ruled on August 3 that a woman is obligated to make child support payments to her former same-sex partner. Reconsidering the case after the state?s highest court, the Court of Appeals, had reversed the appellate division?s previous ruling that the Family Court did not have jurisdiction over the child support claim because New York State did not recognize the non-biological mother as a parent of the child, the Appellate Division panel now endorsed the use of the doctrine of equitable estoppel to resolve the case. In the Matter of H.M. v. E.T., 2007-09323 (Aug. 3, 2010)."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 05, 2010 (boomark / email).