I once knew a guy who fell in love with a women and got her pregnant.
She immediately left him for her lesbian lover and demanded child support.
He's been paying child support to her for 15 years.

lesson ... it's better for your sperm to hit the ground than end up in a 
lesbian.


On Monday, January 27, 2014 10:34:54 AM UTC-6, Travis wrote:
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>    DCG posted: " Kansascity.com: A man who provided sperm to a lesbian 
> couple in response to an online ad is the father of a child born to one of 
> the women and must pay child support, a Kansas judge ruled Wednesday. 
> Topeka resident William Marotta had argued that h"    Respond to this 
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> Kansascity.com<http://www.kansascity.com/2014/01/22/4769468/judge-rules-kansas-sperm-donor.html>:
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> *A man who provided sperm to a lesbian couple in response to an online ad 
> is the father of a child born to one of the women and must pay child 
> support*, a Kansas judge ruled Wednesday.
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> Topeka resident William Marotta had argued that* he had waived his 
> parental rights and didn’t intend to be a father*.
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> Shawnee County District Judge Mary Mattivi rejected that claim, saying *the 
> parties didn’t involve a licensed physician in the artificial insemination 
> process and thus Marotta didn’t qualify as a sperm donor*, The Topeka 
> Capital-Journal reported.
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> “In this case, quite simply, *the parties failed to perform to statutory 
> requirement of the Kansas Parentage Act in not enlisting a licensed 
> physician at some point in the artificial insemination process*, and the 
> parties’ self-designation of (Marotta) as a sperm donor is insufficient to 
> relieve (Marotta) of parental right and responsibilities to the child,” 
> Mattivi wrote.
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> The Kansas Department for Children and Families filed the case in October 
> 2012, seeking to have Marotta declared the father of a child born to 
> Jennifer Schreiner in 2009. *The state’s objective was to hold Marotta 
> responsible for about $6,000 in public assistance the state provided, as 
> well as future child support*.
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> Marotta opposed that action, saying he had contacted Schreiner and her 
> partner at the time, Angela Bauer, in response to an ad they placed on 
> Craigslist seeking a sperm donor. *He said he signed a contract waiving 
> his parental rights and responsibilities.*
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> *Attorneys for the state contended the contract was moot because the 
> parties didn’t follow a 1994 Kansas law requiring a licensed physician to 
> perform the artificial insemination when donors were involved.*
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> During oral arguments at a hearing in October, Timothy Keck, co-lead 
> counsel for the state, said the case focused on child support.
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> Marotta’s attorney, Benoit Swinnen, cited several court rulings that he 
> said support the argument that Marotta is legally a sperm donor and not 
> required to pay child support. *Swinnen also argued that the Kansas 
> statute doesn’t specifically require the artificial insemination to be 
> carried out by a physician.*
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> Court documents show Schreiner indicated she didn’t know the name of the 
> donor or “have any information” about him in her application for child 
> support. However, a sperm donor contract between Marotta and the couple 
> includes his name, and the agency noted the couple talked about their 
> appreciation for him in an interview with The Capital-Journal.
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> A filing Wednesday by the Department for Children and Families *argues 
> the sperm donor contract overlooks “the well-established law in this state 
> that a person cannot contract away his or her obligations to support their 
> child.”*
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> The right for support belongs to the child, not the parents, the filing 
> says.
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> The agency said it also received different versions of the donor contract 
> from Marotta and Schreiner, suggesting that the document “may be invalid on 
> its face.”
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> “We stand by that contract,” Swinnen said. “The insinuation is offensive, 
> and we are responding vigorously to that. … There was no personal 
> relationship whatsoever between my client and the mother, or the partner of 
> the mother, or the child. Anything the state insinuates is vilifying my 
> client, and I will address it.”
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