Suffolk County, N.Y., Family Court Judge Theresa Whelan used the doctrine of judicial estoppel to find that a lesbian mother who had previously acknowledged her former partner’s parental status when seeking a support order from the court, was precluded from denying the partner’s parental status in opposition to a custody/visitation petition.  Judge Whelan’s April 2, 2013, ruling was published in the New York Law Journal on May 10.

The parties, identified as Estrellita A. and … <Read More>