Supreme Court of Kansas November 6, 2020, 119536 (In re W.L.)

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF KANSAS

No. 119,536

In the Matter of the Parentage of W.L. and G.L.,

By and Through M.S.,

Appellant,

and

E.L.,

Appellee.

SYLLABUS BY THE COURT

1.

The same-sex partner of a woman who conceives through artificial insemination

may establish a legal fiction of biological parentage by asserting the Kansas Parentage

Act (KPA) presumption of maternity in K.S.A.