
No parental rights for man after mom married
Article here. Excerpt:
'A northern Michigan man’s bid to establish parental rights to a 2-year-old boy was shot down by the state appeals court in a decision that rested on the marital status of the mother when the child was born.
It’s another case where a man has no automatic right to paternity in Michigan if a child is born to a woman while she’s married to another man. The law has changed since John Sprenger filed a lawsuit in 2011, but the new version hasn’t helped him, either.
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The appeals court viewed the case under an old version of Michigan’s paternity law. While the case was pending, the law was changed in 2012 to give men a better chance at establishing fatherhood.
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“Justice fails when the truth is made subservient to procedural rules,” his attorney, Eric Phelps, said.'
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