Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ptsfa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!well!ptsfa!rob 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 Lines: 12 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.