Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services v. Irene V.

Opinion

JOHNSON, J.

SUMMARY

This dependency action involves the question of whether a child, bom during the marriage of two women but conceived as the result of a premarital relationship between one of the women and a man, may have three presumed parents, one of whom is the child’s biological mother, one of whom is the child’s presumed mother because she and the child’s biological mother were married when the child was bom, and one of whom is the child’s presumed father because he promptly came forward and demonstrated his commitment to his parental responsibilities, to the extent the biological…