Thursday, July 29, 2010

Fenton father fights 'archaic' Michigan law that leaves him without parental rights

Fenton father fights 'archaic' Michigan law that leaves him without parental rights

It’s been a two-year fight, but Daniel Quinn doesn’t plan to quit any time soon.

Despite a court-ordered DNA test that shows he is the father of a 4-year-old girl, the state doesn’t recognize him as the father because of a 1956 law that assumes a woman’s husband is the father of a child born while the couple are married — even if the biological father is not the woman’s husband.

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