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PARTANEN v. GALLAGHER

SJC-12018.

475 Mass. 632 (2016)

KAREN PARTANEN v. JULIE GALLAGHER.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

October 4, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Lisa Bonauto (Elizabeth A. Roberts, Teresa Harkins La Vita, Patience Crozier, & Joyce Kauffman with her) for the plaintiff.

Jennifer M. Lamanna for the defendant.

The following submitted briefs for amicus curiae:

C. Thomas Brown for Greater Boston Legal Services & others.

Emily R. Shulman, Brook Hopkins, & Adam M. Cambier for American Academy of Assisted Reproductive Technology Attorneys & others.

Abigail Taylor, Gail Garinger, Brittany Williams, & Andrea C. Kramer, Assistant Attorneys General, for the Attorney General.

Shannon Minter, of California, Marco J. Quina, & Emma S. Winer for forty-two law professors & another.

Present: GANTS, C.J., SPINA, CORDY, BOTSFORD, DUFFLY, LENK, & HINES, JJ.

In 2014, the plaintiff, Karen Partanen, filed a complaint in the Probate and Family Court seeking to establish legal parentage of two young children. The complaint alleged that she and the defendant, Julie Gallagher, had been in a committed, nonmarital relationship between 2001 and 2013. Using in vitro fertilization, and with Partanen's...

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