delenda est...
Posted on 12/20/2011 5:12:46 PM PST by Coleus
It was not the typical custody case. On one side of the parental tug-of-war over the 5-year-old twin girls at the center of the long-fought court battle were Donald Robinson Hollingsworth and Sean Hollingsworth — a gay couple who married in California and live in Jersey City. On the other was Angelia Robinson, Donald Hollingsworth’s sister, who agreed to serve as a surrogate, ultimately giving birth to the girls through a donor embryo fertilized by Sean Hollingsworth.
At issue for the judge in a case of complicated and strained family relationships, and a contractual agreement with the mother that ended in a bitter lawsuit, was who could best care for the twins. A Hudson County Superior Court judge last week awarded full custody to the biological father, Sean Hollingsworth, while preserving the parental visitation rights of Robinson — who in an earlier court ruling had been declared to be the legal mother.
Through their attorneys, neither parent would comment on the case. But in his opinion, Judge Francis Schultz touched on frayed ties between the two sides.
"The parents’ ability to agree, communicate and cooperate in matters relating to the children is nonexistent here," he wrote. "They hardly speak verbally to each other and there is little communication in writing. They disagree on what school the children should attend, what religion the children should be brought up in, and what they should be told about surrogacy, what they should be told about the gay lifestyle and there is uncertainty as to how the children will be instructed as to their biracial heritage."
The judge said one thing was clear: "There can be no joint legal custody in this case." The attorney for the father, Karim Kaspar of Lowenstein Sandler in Roseland, called it a landmark ruling for tolerance and diversity.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
there were differences in the churches they attend
And which could possibly have been the weirder of the two?
Why aren’t the brother and sister being prosecuted for incest?
The way I read it, they are not siblings. The guy is the gay lover of her brother.
This society is hanging onto the swirling toilet bowl by its fingertips. Homos are “normal” now..
Congratulations, liberals.
Chode,
help me my head is going to explode after reading this article.
delenda est...
What a mess.
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