Family
Apr. 10, 2013
Parental rights for sperm donors in California?
A second look at the Senate Bill 115 reveals that the amendment, however unintentionally, would expose women to unwanted paternity claims.
Lisa P. Sutton
Associate, Wasser, Cooperman & Carter PC
It's a mother's nightmare: an unforeseen paternity claim by her sperm donor years after the child's birth. Yet under current California law, it's a nightmare that rarely becomes reality. Family Code Section 7613(b) provides that a man who donates his sperm to a woman who is not his wife, and who has not agreed to co-parent in a pre-conception writing, cannot later be deemed the child's natural father. For a gay woman who decides to become a parent, either as a single woman or with her unma...
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