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Friday 8 February 2013 | Issue 1161 | starobserver.
com.
au
Giant legal leap for gay dads
National
Benn Dorrington
TwogaydadshavebecomethefirstinAustralia
to have started a family via overseas surrogacy
andsuccessfullygainedfullparentalrights.
Australiangayfatherswhotraveloverseasto
start a family through commercial surrogacy
are not recognised as parents, either state or
federally, but a recent court ruling may have
clearedthewayforotherWAgaycouples,and
possiblysetaprecedentinotherstates.
The Western Australian Family Court
allowedaco-fathertoadopthistwinchildren,
who were born via a commercial surrogacy
agreementinIndia,onJanuary10.
Charles Blake and James Marston, whose
names were changed, applied for Blake to
become a step-parent to the twins - Marston
isthebiologicalfather.
The surrogate mother rel
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