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Hissyspit

(45,788 posts)
Thu Feb 7, 2013, 08:07 PM Feb 2013

Florida Judge Approves Birth Certificate Listing Three Parents

Source: Reuters

Florida judge approves birth certificate listing three parents

MIAMI | Thu Feb 7, 2013 6:35pm EST

By Kevin Gray

MIAMI (Reuters) - A Florida judge has approved the adoption of a 22-month-old baby girl that will list three people as parents on her birth certificate -- a married lesbian couple and a gay man.

The decision ends a two-year paternity fight between the couple and a friend of the women who donated his sperm to father the child but later sought a larger role in the girl's life.

The ruling means the child's birth certificate will include a biological father and both women as parents in an unusual arrangement approved recently by a Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge.

The women, Maria Italiano, 43, and Cher Filippazzo, 38, had made several unsuccessful attempts to become parents using fertility clinics.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE91618L20130207

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Florida Judge Approves Birth Certificate Listing Three Parents (Original Post) Hissyspit Feb 2013 OP
And in Florida! Warpy Feb 2013 #1
Next up cosmicone Feb 2013 #2
That's rather special. Opens the door, certainly, to other "DNA is Destiny" cases. MADem Feb 2013 #3
It satisfies the govt's interest. LiberalFighter Feb 2013 #4
This Is Wrong RobinA Feb 2013 #5
My birth certificate makes no mention of my biological parents Marrah_G Feb 2013 #7
Birth certificate should show biological mother and biological father if known. yellowcanine Feb 2013 #6
My birth certificate make no mention of my biological parents Marrah_G Feb 2013 #8

Warpy

(111,275 posts)
1. And in Florida!
Thu Feb 7, 2013, 08:12 PM
Feb 2013

All the fundies in the rest of the state are going to be freaking out over this one.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
3. That's rather special. Opens the door, certainly, to other "DNA is Destiny" cases.
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 12:24 AM
Feb 2013

I do think children have a right to know--if the parents know--where their genetic code came from.

Not really sure about the rest; I suppose "it depends."

It's certainly complex.

LiberalFighter

(50,950 posts)
4. It satisfies the govt's interest.
Sun Feb 10, 2013, 11:09 AM
Feb 2013

If the government can reduce the likelihood of providing financial aid all the better. It increases the odds that the child will not suffer due to economics and has more interested in its well-being.

If by chance one of them get "divorced" the court will have an interesting decision to make. Or what happens if one of the remaining female remarries how does that get resolved?

RobinA

(9,893 posts)
5. This Is Wrong
Mon Feb 11, 2013, 01:01 PM
Feb 2013

This opens the door to all kind of hairsplitting that will eventually make birth certificates useless for what they were intended for - to show a birth and the child's bio parents.

yellowcanine

(35,699 posts)
6. Birth certificate should show biological mother and biological father if known.
Mon Feb 11, 2013, 01:29 PM
Feb 2013

There is no need for any other information. Custody and visitation issues should be decided by a family court judge according to the child's best interests. What is on the birth certificate is immaterial.

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