Article: Arkansas Court of Appeals say non-biological parent has visitation rights

A woman who gave birth to another man's child during her first marriage couldn't terminate her first husband's visitation rights after divorcing him and marrying the child's biological father, the Arkansas Court of Appeals has ruled.

While married, a woman had an affair and gave birth to a son. After the child's birth, the husband behaved as the child's father for the first two years of its life until the mother divorced him.

Their divorce decree provided the husband with visitation rights and required him to pay child support and provide medical coverage. But when the mother married the child's biological father, she sought an order terminating the former husband's visitation.

The wife ...

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