Court to would-be dead beat lesbian: take a crowbar to that wallet
Associated Press:
A lesbian who split with her partner after adopting the woman's biological children must pay child support, the Indiana Court of Appeals has ruled.
The woman adopted her partner's children in 1997. A few years after their breakup, she tried to vacate the adoption. Around the same time, the children's biological mother, who had remarried and divorced a man, filed for child support.
A three-judge panel ruled Wednesday that the woman who adopted the children must contribute to the cost of raising them.
"Whether a parent is a man or a woman, homosexual or heterosexual, or adoptive or biological, in assuming that role, a person also assumes certain responsibilities, obligations, and duties," Judge John G. Baker wrote in a 22-page ruling.
This woman adopts her partner's children -- which means, as a matter of law, they're her kids, too -- and she needs a court to tell her that she has a responsibility to them?
Hello?