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(40m) Stepparent. “
Stepparent" means a person who is the spouse of
2a child's parent and who is not also a parent of the child.
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Legislative intent. The legislature intends this act to harmonize the
5language of the Wisconsin statutes relating to marriage and the determination of
6parentage with the provision of s. 990.001 (2), which specifies that words importing
7one gender extend and may be applied to any gender. The legislature intends that
8by amending the statutes relating to marriage and the determination of parentage
9with respect to married couples to use gender neutral language where appropriate
10so as to clarify that the same statutory rights and responsibilities apply between
11married persons of the same sex as between married persons of different sexes and
12to extend some of the presumptions of paternity to either parent, the Wisconsin
13statutes will be better aligned with the holding of the U.S. Supreme Court in
14Obergefell v. Hodges, 135 S. Ct. 2584, 192 L.Ed.2d 609 (2015), which recognizes that
15same-sex couples have a fundamental constitutional right to marriage.