Posted on 10/25/2014 11:56:33 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows
Oklahoma's Supreme Court has ruled that when it comes to informing a man that he is about to become a father, a Facebook post doesn't cut it, legally speaking.
In this case, a woman had a three-month fling with a man named Billy McCall in 2011, then realized she was pregnant after they broke things off, reports the Oklahoman.
She sent him a Facebook message informing of the big news, gave birth in 2012, then immediately put the baby up for adoption. McCall says he never saw the Facebook post and learned about the baby only after it was born, explains Courthouse News Service.
Lower courts declared that McCall's parental rights had been terminated, but the state Supreme Court disagreed. "This court is unwilling to declare notice via Facebook alone sufficient to meet the requirements of the due processes clauses of the United States and Oklahoma Constitutions," wrote a justice in the majority opinion, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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She'll still make him a sammich.
You Betcha! If I woke up to THAT genetic cross between Pierce and Connery, I’d be hot-footin’ it to the kitchen in my nightie, bunny slippers and hot rollers!
*SIGH*
But I’d MUCH rather sit on the couch with you watching old re-runs of, ‘Golden Girls,’ eatin’ Cheetos and rubbing your belly as you grow my child inside ya.
I don’t deserve you. Seriously. I DON’T! :)
However, I still think we’re the Cutest Couple since Joanie and Chachi.
I would be against taking the child away from her parents at this point.
I agree. I'm not sure what this guy is trying to accomplish here. Better at this point to leave the girl with the parents who adopted her. And I don't believe for a second he didn't read his Facebook message.
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