Court chooses paternity over biology

The Deseret News, Salt Lake City, UT

The Utah Supreme Court has chosen paternity over biology in ruling that a biological father cannot claim parental rights over a child when another man had established himself as the child's legal father since birth.

While the majority of justices sided with the child's non-biological father, Chief Justice Christine Durham dissented, saying the majority's opinion was based on a common-law legal standard that is almost 20 years old.

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