Dad’s Adoption Rights Upheld in Surrogacy Case

A unanimous four-judge panel of the New York Appellate Division in Brooklyn revived a gay dad’s petition to adopt his son, reversing a “clearly erroneous” decision by Queens County Family Court Judge John M. Hunt.

Hunt stated two reasons for dismissing the adoption petition: that the child was the result of what he termed “a patently illegal surrogacy contract” and that there was no authority under New York law for a parent to adopt their own biological child.

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SURROGACY FEE FEAR Up to £60k is being paid by some desperate Brit couples who choose to have a baby by surrogacy

DESPERATE couples are spending up to £60,000 to have a baby using British surrogate mums, a conference has heard.

The huge sum is more than double the average UK salary of £25,000 and five to ten times what experts say it should cost.

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Britain's ‘oldest parents’ have their baby removed by social services

A COUPLE in their 60s have had their baby removed from their care just one year after controversially becoming Britain’s oldest parents.

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• Britain's oldest new parents left 'devastated' after one-year-old child is taken away by Social Services

Surrogate mother who changed her mind must hand baby to gay couple, court rules

A surrogate mother has lost custody of her child after a court ruled he would be better placed with the gay couple who arranged for her to have the baby.

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Surrogate mother forced into custody battle to keep own biological baby

A surrogate mother has been forced into a bitter custody battle for her son after she unknowingly gave birth to her own biological baby while also carrying the other couple’s child.

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Gay couple win custody battle with Thai surrogate mother after 15 months in hiding with baby

A gay American-Spanish couple have won custody of their surrogate-born daughter in Thailand 15 months after her birth mother blocked her departure because they are homosexual.


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• Thailand court grants foreign gay couple full custody of surrogate baby after legal battle with mother

Heartbroken Parents Left Paying Child Support After Surrogate Keeps Their Baby Girl: 'I Spend Every Day Thinking of Her,' Says Mom

Barbara and David (who've asked that their last name not be used) weren't just going to hire any surrogate when they were looking to expand their family.

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Manhattan couple sues to get their names on birth certificate of boy born through surrogate

Manhattan couple sues to get their names on birth certificate of boy born through surrogate

That's what a Manhattan couple wants the whole world — and the legal system — to know about a little boy born last summer in Brooklyn to a surrogate mother.

Treat surrogate parents as sex offenders, says Italian minister

Treat surrogate parents as sex offenders, says Italian minister

Italy’s interior minister has called for surrogate parents to be treated as sex offenders, as part of a broader campaign against the prime minister’s efforts to grant family rights to same-sex couples.

Surrogate Mom Carrying Triplets Sues Birth Father Over Demands That She Abort Child

Surrogate Mom Carrying Triplets Sues Birth Father Over Demands That She Abort Child

A lawsuit has been filed in California by a surrogate mom who has been asked to abort one of the triplets she's carrying because the father only wants twins.

• Surrogate, Told to Abort, Sues the Father
• Father Demands Surrogate Mother Abort Third Fetus, Says Lawsuit
• Surrogate Mom Refuses Abortion, Sues Birth Father

Judge forces mom to give her baby to homosexual couple: the latest case of surrogacy’s folly

Judge forces mom to give her baby to homosexual couple: the latest case of surrogacy’s folly

A convoluted custody dispute over an artificially conceived child has left the mother bereft and homosexual and Christian activists at loggerheads.

Judge forces mom to give her baby to homosexual couple: the latest case of surrogacy’s folly

Judge forces mom to give her baby to homosexual couple: the latest case of surrogacy’s folly

A convoluted custody dispute over an artificially conceived child has left the mother bereft and homosexual and Christian activists at loggerheads.

Spread of surrogacy cases is a national shame

Spread of surrogacy cases is a national shame

The alarming spread of surrogacy cases in poor India is a glaring national shame. Indian surrogacy has crossed $ 400 million a year. Besides being a ruthless commercial activity, surrogacy is a violation of human rights of the ill-informed, illiterate dalit and tribal women of India. The surrogate mother is considered ‘a mechanical carrier’ and her womb a commodity.

Surrogacy for Indians only - Govt tells SC it plans to ban embryo import

Surrogacy for Indians only - Govt tells SC it plans to ban embryo import

The Centre today told the Supreme Court it proposes to ban the import of human embryos for commercial surrogacy and would permit "only altruistic surrogacy to... infertile married Indian couples".

Babies For Sale, In A Market Near You

Babies For Sale, In A Market Near You

The black market in baby sales is a predictable shadow enterprise of foreign surrogacy markets. The open question is how long it will remain a back-alley economy. Considering the form and function of the multi-billion-dollar child production industry, and the public shrug at its operation, the wonder may be that direct infant sales are still illegal.

Swiss couple 'made to adopt own children'

Swiss couple 'made to adopt own children'

A Swiss couple who used a surrogate mother in the US to give birth to their twins have lost an appeal to be registered as the children's natural parents in Switzerland. But there is a way out.

Britain's top family judge rules that a single father has NO rights over his own son and names the surrogate mother he paid £20,000 to as the child's only legal guardian

Britain's top family judge rules that a single father has NO rights over his own son and names the surrogate mother he paid £20,000 to as the child's only legal guardian

A single man's fight to be recognised as the sole parent of a surrogate baby boy that he paid to have born in America has been rejected by a leading High Court judge in a unique test case.

Baby boy trapped in legal limbo after family judge rules father has no legal rights over his son

Baby boy trapped in legal limbo after family judge rules father has no legal rights over his son

A baby boy conceived as part of a commercial surrogacy arrangement between an American woman and a British man has been left trapped in legal limbo after a British court refused to recognise the man as his father because he is single.

Couple fight for return of baby Carmen

Couple fight for return of baby Carmen 

The American-Spanish gay couple fighting for custody of their seven-month-old surrogate daughter Carmen have claimed on their Facebook page that they have met the egg donor who wants Carmen to stay with...

Law banning commercial surrogacy takes effect Thursday

Law banning commercial surrogacy takes effect Thursday


A new law banning commercial surrogacy takes effect July 30 even as controversy continues to swirl around children born before the law was passed this winter.