A Pennsylvania middle-level court declared two lesbians and a sperm donor to be three legal parents for children at the heart of a custody support battle.
In the PA case, the battle over parenting responsibilities was fought on the grounds of child support payments. The two women in the case had split from a six-year lesbian relationship which had included forming a civil union in Vermont. One woman, Jodilynn, relocated with four children--two her nephews and two her birth children conceived by a sperm donor, who was a friend of her one-time lesbian partner, Jennifer. A lower court split custody of the children, giving the care of one nephew, accused of assaulting one of the younger children, to Jennifer, and leaving the other three children in Jodilynn's care.
Jodilynn sued for child support payments from Jennifer and was awarded payments of $983 per month. Jennifer appealed that ruling, arguing that her friend Carl, who had donated the sperm to conceive the two youngest children, should be required to pay part of the child support.
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