The State of Hawaii child support enforcement agency sought to enforce a child support obligation against the defendant and to obtain a judgment for past-due child support payments. The defendant argued that the agency lacked authority and that the enforcement process violated his constitutional rights.
Articles 558 through 564 of the Civil and Commercial Code define the methods that establish parentage and describe parentage via medically assisted reproduction. In Argentina, parentage can be established via natural birth, via medically assisted reproduction, or via adoption (Article 558). The government must not label or differentiate birth certificates by parentage method (Article 559).
An unmarried but long-term lesbian couple had a child together. The non-biological mother never attempted to adopt the child. After several years, the couple split, and the biological mother retained custody. The non-biological mother sued, claiming that her constitutional rights were violated, as she should legally be considered a parent due to her close relationship to the child.
The Amendment to the Parental Code (2021:783) on the presumption of parenthood, effective January 1, 2022, expands the presumption of parenthood to include married female couples as well as married couples in which one or both spouses have undergone a legal gender transition. This aligns the law with the presumption already applied to heterosexual married couples. Under Chapter 1, Section 9 of the Parental Code, a woman who is married to or in a registered partnership with the birth mother is automatically presumed to be the child’s other legal parent.
A woman sought to be recognized as the legal parent of two children conceived by her former partner through in vitro fertilization during their long-term relationship. They were never married. Although the woman was not biologically related to the children and had not formally adopted them, she helped plan their conception, was present at their births, lived with them, and shared in their upbringing, financial support, and public representation as their mother.
Kami and Angie Roe (plaintiffs) sued the Executive Director of the Utah Department of Health and the Director of Utah’s Office of Vital Records and Statistics (defendants) in their official capacity and sought a preliminary injunction seeking a court order to enjoin the defendants from applying sections of the Utah Uniform Parentage Act differently to male and female spouses of those who become pr
The plaintiff sued his wife, the defendant, to have his name as the father removed from a birth certificate. The child was born through the use of assisted reproductive technology (“ART”).
