Same Sex Relationships and Issues Affecting Transgender and Transsexual People: Difference between revisions
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*other persons are also under a legal obligation to care for the child. | *other persons are also under a legal obligation to care for the child. | ||
The only one of these exceptions that has any special relevance to same sex couples is the last: where another person is also under an obligation to support the child. Assuming there is another parent in the picture apart from the other party to the relationship, that | The only one of these exceptions that has any special relevance to same sex couples is the last: where another person is also under an obligation to support the child. Assuming there is another parent in the picture apart from the other party to the relationship, that other parent will also be obliged to contribute to the support of the child. In ''Murphy v. Laurence and Rogers'', the biological mother of a child was entitled to receive child support from both her former lesbian partner and the child's father. | ||
===Divorce=== | ===Divorce=== | ||