Legal Opinion
In re Sebastian
New York Surrogate's Court
Decided April 9, 2009PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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Kristin Booth Glen, S.
This case presents important questions about the ways in which a child’s “parents” are defined and legally constituted, and how the parent-child relationship can be protected in a transient, cross-border society. Answers implicate assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) and an outdated statutory scheme which fails to anticipate the relations created by those technologies, New York’s evolving jurisprudence of same-sex relationships, equal protection, full faith and credit, and the effects of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) (1 USC § 7; 28…
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