Same-Sex Partners Both have Parental Responsibility

The California Supreme Court ruled this week that both partners in a lesbian relationship may qualify under state law as parents of a child born to one of them.

"We conclude that a woman who agreed to raise her children with her lesbian partner, supported her partner’s artificial insemination using an anonymous donor, and received the resulting twin children into her home and held them out as her own, is the children’s parent under the Uniform Parentage Act and has an obligation to support them," Justice Carlos Moreno wrote in the court’s opinion.Please see Elisa B. v. the Superior Court of El Dorado County