Court: Lesbian Can’t Be Forced to Pay Support
A woman who agreed to have a child with her lesbian partner but split up with the mother before the baby’s birth cannot be forced to pay child support, the state’s highest court ruled in Boston.
The split ruling by the Supreme Judicial Court -- which legalized gay marriage in a landmark ruling last year -- came in the case of a lesbian couple, identified in court documents as “T.F.” and “B.L.,” who lived together from 1996 to 2000.
B.L. at first resisted T.F.’s wishes to have a child, but later changed her mind. The couple broke up after T.F. got pregnant by artificial insemination.
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