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How a Sperm Donor May Get Parental Rights and Responsibilities

Did you know that, in the UK, sperm donors have parental rights if they are known to the parent/s to be?<br><br>Needless to say, the law regarding both a sperm donoru2019s legal responsibilities as well as his parental rights is somewhat complex. If you are intending to donate sperm anonymously or to a single or a couple you know, know your rights before you make a decision that has unintended legal consequences for you.

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How a Sperm Donor May Get Parental Rights and Responsibilities

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  1. How a Sperm Donor May Get Parental Rights and Responsibilities Did you know that, in the UK, sperm donors have parental rights if they are known to the parent/s to be? Needless to say, the law regarding both a sperm donor’s legal responsibilities as well as his parental rights is somewhat complex. If you are intending to donate sperm anonymously or to a single or a couple you know, know your rights before you make a decision that has unintended legal consequences for you. This article comes from the office of Philadelphia divorce lawyer Lee A. Schwartz. How Do You Intend to Donate Sperm?

  2. If you intend to donate sperm anonymously to someone through a licensed fertility clinic, you will have no parental rights in the UK. And, while the offspring created by your donation has the right to your identity and may contact you someday, you will have limited information about those individuals, usually only gender and year of birth. If you intend to donate sperm to an unmarried woman via home or natural insemination, you will probably be its legal father and have parenting rights as well as legal responsibility for the child: The woman carrying the child has the right to name either the sperm donor or her partner as the other parent on the birth certificate. If you intend to donate sperm to a married couple (lesbian or heterosexual) via home or natural insemination, you may have parental rights and legal parental responsibility for the child. In most cases, however, if the woman who is carrying the child is married or in a civil partnership, the husband or civil partner (if the child was born after 6 April 2009) becomes the child’s legal parent. Read More Single Parents on Holiday Ltd 3 Hayes Court 116 West Common Road Bromley Kent UK BR2 7EG 0333 370 3701 info@singleparentsonholiday.co.uk https://singleparentsonholiday.co.uk

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