Michelle Kinney and Catherine Wong discuss the legal recognition of three-parent families and how BC courts are handling parenting disputes in a diverse family landscape where family law, fertility law and assisted reproduction intersect.
I, Michelle Kinney, am honored to be quoted in a recent Canadian Affairs article titled “Three-Parent Families Treated Like Any Other in Parenting Disputes.” In it, I share my thoughts on the growing recognition of three-parent families within the legal system and what this means for parenting disputes, along with my Fertility Law BC colleague Catherine Wong.
Three-parent families are getting more legal recognition, family lawyers say after a recent B.C. court decision about parenting time.
In the case, a married female couple and a friend made a pre-conception agreement saying the three of them would have equal time with any children conceived through the man’s sperm. But then their relationship dissolved.
In its decision, the court said the father should have increased time with his child.
“The courts treated this exactly the same as they would any other family, and that was the right thing to do,” said Michelle Kinney, a family and fertility lawyer in Victoria, B.C.
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