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Judge rules that Kansan who provided sperm to lesbian couple owes child support
[KANSASCITY] A man who provided sperm to a lesbian couple in response to an online ad is the father of a child born to one of the women and must pay child support, a Kansas judge ruled Wednesday.How to get screwed without getting laid... Topeka resident William Marotta had argued that he had waived his parental rights and didn't intend to be a father. Shawnee County District Judge Mary Mattivi rejected that claim, saying the parties didn't involve a licensed physician in the artificial insemination process and thus Marotta didn't qualify as a sperm donor, The Topeka Capital-Journal reported. "In this case, quite simply, the parties failed to perform to statutory requirement of the Kansas Parentage Act in not enlisting a licensed physician at some point in the artificial insemination process, and the parties' self-designation of (Marotta) as a sperm donor is insufficient to relieve (Marotta) of parental right and responsibilities to the child," Mattivi wrote. The Kansas Department for Children and Families filed the case in October 2012, seeking to have Marotta declared the father of a child born to Jennifer Schreiner in 2009. The state's objective was to hold Marotta responsible for about $6,000 in public assistance the state provided, as well as future child support. Posted by: Fred 2014-01-24 |
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