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Monroe County Family Court Judge Joan Kohout handed a lesbian couple a disappointing decision when she determined that a married same-sex couple cannot use a marital statute to block a man’s paternity petition for the child he fathered with one of the spouses during the women’s marriage. Judge Kohout said that while state Domestic Relations Law prohibits discrimination against same-sex married couples, it does not require the court to “ignore the obvious biological differences between husbands and wives.”
Saving Agreements with Defective or Missing Temporary Maintenance Agreements
The author concludes this three-part article with more suggested arguments for saving a temporary maintenance agreement that does not contain the language and recitations required by subdivision 5-a(f) of DRL ' 236B.
Analysis of key rulings of important to New York family law practitioners.
Discussion of a case involving a violation of the ban precluding an attorney from providing a copy of the forensic report to a client -- and what the subsequent ruling means to family law in New York,
By ljnstaff
A look at what's happening in neighboring states.