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From: rob@ptsfa.UUCP (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: Legal rights
Message-ID: <876@ptsfa.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 04:24:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: ptsfa.876
Posted: Sun Sep 15 04:24:25 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 17-Sep-85 05:21:47 EDT
References: <187@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: rob@ptsfa.UUCP (Rob Bernardo)
Organization: Pacific Bell, San Francisco
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Keywords: legal rights samesex couples

In article <187@well.UUCP> rooter@well.UUCP (Brian Mavrogeorge) writes:
>Our approach was for one to adopt the other and we did.  At
>the time we then became legally father and son.  That cleared up a lot 
>of problems in the eyes of the legal system. 
>...  One caveat -- adoptions are
>not easily (if ever) reversible.  One couple subsequently broke up and now
>are estranged yet the legal relationship of father/son continues.

I understand also that once someone is legally adopted s/he does not
automatically get inheritence from biological or other non-biological parents
by fact of HAVING BEEN that parent's child. In other words, if you are
adopted, you are no longer the legal child of your former parent.


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