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  • Same-Sex Couple Can't Bar Paternity Test Bid, Court Says

    11/10/2014 7:39:04 PM PST · by Behind Liberal Lines · 44 replies
    New York Law Journal ^ | 11.12.14 issue | Joel Stashenko
    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, a Family Court judge has determined. Monroe County Family Court Judge Joan Kohout (See Profile) 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." Neither spouse in a male-male marriage can biologically give birth to a baby, and neither spouse in a female-female marriage can be the biological "father," Kohout wrote...