Sperm donor sued for child support...same sex couple involved.

[RobJohnson]

A Kansas district court heard arguments Friday in the case of a man who is being sued for thousands of dollars in child support by the state after donating his sperm to a same-sex couple he found through a Craigslist ad.

William Marotta, a mechanic, and his wife Kimberly are fighting the state’s contention that the man should be required to pay child support, arguing that a Kansas law requiring a licensed doctor to perform artificial insemination is antiquated.

Sticky Case

[DLR Pyro]

The donar was stupid not to have legal documents drawn up and signed by all parties that relieved him of any financial responsibility for any children that result from his donation.

[JohnnyReb]

What's the world cumming too.....deadbeat turkey basters.

[RobJohnson]

What's the world cumming too.....deadbeat turkey basters.

 

[DefiantSix]

Reason # 5,627,488 why sane people should never conduct business on Craigslist.

[RobJohnson]

Reason # 5,627,488 why sane people should never conduct business on Craigslist.

Sperm donors are not new. Using Craig's list for the transaction is.

[DefiantSix]

Sperm donors are not new. Using Craig's list for the transaction is.

Precisely.

[RobJohnson]

At the time Bauer and Schreiner placed the ad, they had been together for eight years and already had adopted several other children. The couple split in December 2010, but continue to co-parent their eight children, who range in age from 3 months to 25 years.

Yes, the gay couple already had 8 kids when they placed the ad for sperm.

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After the couple filed for assistance earlier this year, the state welfare agency demanded they provide the donor’s name so it could collect child support. The state has that authority, court documents state, because the insemination wasn’t performed by a licensed physician, thus making the contract void.

It is the same for the rest of their children, Bauer said. Because the state of Kansas doesn’t recognize same-sex unions, the couple had to file each adoption as a single parent.

That law also prevents the state from collecting child support from same-sex partners, despite the fact that Bauer volunteered to assume financial responsibility for her daughter.

To collect child support from her would mean recognizing Bauer as a parent — opening the doors, she said, to increased legal rights for gays and lesbian parents.

Bauer couldn’t say whether the state’s lawsuit against Marotta was simply bureaucratic or had a political slant to it, but either way, she said, it has bigger implications outside of her situation.

“More and more gays and lesbians are adopting and reproducing, and this, to me, is a step backward,” Bauer said. “I think a lot of progressive movement is happening currently in the world as far as gays and lesbians go. Maybe this is Kansas’ stand against some of that.”

How progressive!

[Eupher]

Need a  alert for that one. Good gawd.

DUmmy rug munchers are on the public dole, so the state of Kansas goes after the sperm donor. The rug munchers are also not an "item" any more. So much for eternal bliss, eh?

Rob is completely correct - how progressively quaint!

F'n asshats.