Debate on Fox--Lesbian Mom Demands Child Support from Sperm Donor Dad

GlennSacks.com ^ | 8/12/08 | Glenn Sacks

[pabianice]

Another reason to just use your sock.

[Centurion2000]

1) Zoernig, Mintz, and Mrantz made an agreement. Zoernig held up his end of the bargain and then some. Why is it that mothers are so often able to toss agreements aside in family court as soon as they become inconvenient?

Welcome to Family Court.

[Mr. K]

"Another reason to just use your sock."

ummmmm... for what?

[lilylangtree]

Now this is just plain wrong. Makes for a good reason NOT to identify the sperm or egg donors.

[jalisco555]

No good deed goes unpunished.

[John123]

yeah... but when the guy takes an ACTIVE role raising the children... who is he kidding?

[QBFimi]

“Sock” as in:

In days of old when knights were bold and rubbers weren’t invented;
The men used socks upon their ***** and babies were prevented.

????????

[massgopguy]

It wasn’t a good deed.

[Schnucki]

Well, this is going to be one heck of a cold shower for sperm donor banks. ;)

[Tax-chick]

Why isn’t this author telling his readers to stop throwing their sperm all over the landscape? Isn’t that an obvious way to avoid most child-support issues?

And he seems awfully supportive of lesbians’ “having a child together” for a writer who professes to support the interests of males. One article it’s “children need Dads,” and the next it’s “but a butch ‘mom’ is okay, too.”

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

Yet another example of how lesbians try to stick it to men. Why do lesbian hate heterosexual men and often just men in general?

[r9etb]

Glenn Sacks is again worthless.

Here's the relevant section of the referenced article:

Mintz and Zoernig entered into a similar agreement for the second child, born in 1997, court records show.

Although Mintz is the children's primary custodian, they stay with Zoernig every other weekend during the school year and half the summer. Zoernig, 50, now is married and has three children with his wife.

IOW, Mr. Zoernig is not "out of the picture" in any sense.

I cannot comment on the decision itself, and child support law is rather abstruse in any case. But in his haste to bash the decision, it appears (as usual) that Mr. Sacks cannot seem to address a rather relevant portion of the case.

[jalisco555]

It wasn’t a good deed.

Didn't work out well for him, did it? But I take your point, the whole lesbian mother business wierds me out.

[longtermmemmory]

every child has a mother and a father.

No matter what the recreational sex of the parties, this does not change the laws of reproduction.

[weegee]

Mintz and Mrantz

Now separated. How wonderful.

[longtermmemmory]

child support does not belong to the mother, it belongs to the child and the mother has no power to waive it.

The next step is to pierce the veil of anonymous donations and hold those fathers for their child support obligation.

[weegee]

“In 2004, Mintz filed a motion to raise those payments, saying her financial situation had changed. “

She became a deadbeat mom???

[weegee]

I’d like to know if her lover ever sought visitation after they separated and even if not, why is the woman she shacked up with not financially responsible for child support?

[weegee]

At a point, he should just go to court for full custody to raise the children at home with their siblings.