Florida law says sperm and egg donors must " relinquish all maternal or paternal rights and obligations with respect to the donation or the resulting children, " the court said.
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Court records show that Brown testified that he was willing to surrender his paternal rights if he'would not be responsible in any way for child support or anything else as far as the child's concerned .'
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Citizens who convert from Islam to another faith, however, generally face problems under Oman's Personal Status and Family Legal Code, which specifically prohibits a father who leaves the Islamic faith from retaining paternal rights over his children.
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Men, in turn, were often separated from their families . " At the same time that slaveholders promoted a strong bond between slave mother and their children, they denied to slave fathers their paternal rights of ownership and authority . . . " Biological families were often separated by sale.
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But the Court of Chancery, wherever there was trust property and the infant could be made a ward of court, took a less rigid view of the paternal rights and looked more to the interest of the child, and consequently in some cases to the extension of the mother's rights in common law.
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:: The article Paternal rights and abortion lists several examples from the UK where fathers have "'unsuccessfully "'attempted to prevent pregnant women obtaining abortions ( as well as the above Canadian example ) but also lists countries in which the law requires the consent of a woman's husband for an abortion.
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I started working to enforce NPOV early in my editing career ( career ? doesn't that imply that we're being paid ? ), first participating in a discussion of edits that were too pro-paternal rights at Talk : Abortion, if memory serves, and I've participated in many more discussions of POV since.
