Yes. Me asking a question in good faith on a site I’ve been commenting on for years (you’re free to check my history) makes me Tucker Carlson. I didn’t realize “step-parent” is a no-no word to describe a couple who married when she was already pregnant. A couple who remained in contact with a person whose relationship…

Thank you for the in-depth response. I didn’t know about the rule regarding two-year olds. And yes, you make a good point about the other wife putting her name on the birth certificate, signifying the intent of parenthood.

You’ve got special access to the case that we do not?

If a spouse adopts an orphan and the other does not, does the non-adoptive parent have a legal claim to the child in the case of divorce? I would argue they do not.

Thank you for the clarification. ETA, although it doesn’t look good if he tried to contact her when it was initiated. Wouldn’t it have been better to let it ride out, since they probably are living far away from one another anyway, and then fight it if she tries to make it permanent?

Do you have an example of that? Courts seem very, very reluctant to terminate parental access. Even in cases of demonstrated harm.

“We do not anticipate that the court will grant the restraining order,” Andrew Brettler, Hammer’s attorney, told Rolling Stone. Brettler claims Hammer has never met the woman and has proof that his client was not in New York City—where the woman alleges the incident took place—at the time stated in the filing.

But if they were to get divorced and the mother says, “I’m not sure you’re the biological father,” and that ends up being true, then what?

Nothing screams “secure relationship” like tattoos. Next thing you know we’re going to be subjected to headlines about their decision to renew their vows annually.

Take your goddamn star.

People with legal experience, please feel free to correct me, but step parents don’t have legal rights to children they haven’t adopted, correct? Yes, adoption is an extra barrier, but as a non-biological parent I would want to ensure my rights are absolutely certain.

Okay, gotcha. I thought you were defending her. There’s a lot of weird “yas queening” for billionaires on this site. 

[I]n 2019, she told Vogue that she “absolutely” turned down the opportunity to do the Super Bowl halftime show at the time in support of Colin Kaepernick. “I couldn’t dare do that,” she said of the 2018 opportunity. “For what? Who gains from that? Not my people. I just couldn’t be a sellout. I couldn’t be an enabler.…

“Sell out, with me, oh yeah. Sell out, with me tonight…”

She’s selling a Super Bowl makeup kit. That’s how she gets paid. 

Fourthded.

Your comment reveals your entire ass. Work on it for next time.

Shhh! Don’t upset the infantile adults with a mature reading of the text. Let them live in their fantasy world, devoid of any social-political context. Media only exists as a surface-level distraction.

On the other hand, bathroom bans will result in trans women being assualted, both sexually and physically, or even murdered, in men’s rooms. We know this because it literally happens regularly.

That’s an incredulous take; like, astoundingly gullible.