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By Jan Grossman, Esq.
Bucks County Courts can regularly allow three or more loved ones to share legal or physical custody of a child. Whether it be a grandparent and two parents. a step-parent, an aunt and a parent, or even a gay couple and a grandparent, the standard is the best interest of the child. LEGAL CUSTODY is simply the right to have input into the major decisions in a child’s life. PHYSICAL CUSTODY is the right to spend defined time with the child. With today’ modern extended families, drug addiction incapacitating parents, LGBT+ couples and parenting arrangements, etc., the courts have to be flexible in allowing the best combination of adults to involve themselves in guiding a child’s life.
If you have been taking care of a child and wish to gain legal or physical custodian status, please call us at 1-855-LAW-FAMILY. We will meet with you at no charge, review your special circumstances, and counsel you as to whether you are eligible to be share legal custody, the legal and emotional implications, and how to move forward legally.
A recent story of three people in a polyamorous relationship receiving custody was in the headlines:
ROMANTIC THREESOME GRANTED CUSTODY OVER A TEN YEAR OLD
A Long Island threesome who split after they raised their son with two mothers and a father have been granted ‘tri-custody’ of the 10-year-old boy in a historic New York ruling.
Michael, 50, and Dawn Marano, 47, from Bay Shore had been raising their son along with their downstairs neighbor Audria Garcia, 48, the boy’s biological mom, The New York Post reported.
Suffolk County Supreme Court Judge H. Patrick Leis III granted custody to all three parents in an unprecedented ruling. The Maranos married in 1994 and had been living in a conventional marriage up until they began to have ‘intimate relations’ with Garcia when she moved in with the couple in 2001. In 2007, Mr Marano and Garcia conceived their son because Mrs Marano was infertile, court documents state. The threesome agreed raise the child together.The wife’s insurance covered Garcia’s pregnancy and the two women nursed the baby and attended doctor appointments together.
‘No one told these three people to create this unique relationship,’ the judge said during the ruling. Leis also told Michael Marano that no one told the father ‘to conceive a child with his wife’s best friend’, the New York Post said. The father was granted rights to see the boy on weekends. While the two women were happy with the decision, Michael told the paper he was going to file an appeal.
