Surrogate wants to keep baby AND recieve child support

[Billnew]

Whatever the outcome, I hope final custody is decided early in the child's life.

IMAO, I think the father should should have the choice between visitation/support or no contact if the custody is given to the surrogate mother.

I am thinking it will be a constant tug of war, using current problems to try to get the other out of the babies life.

The father can choose no contact, but he will always be the father and will have to provide support, just as if he had concieved the child by normal means.

 

[kermit]

The surrogate has no just foothold.
She cashed the check.
The pregnancy was not natural insemination.
Both sides agree that the plan was to give the baby to the real parents, not the surrogate.

For her to want to keep the child, and then demand money for it is another example of how bad western society has become.

From a contract law perspective I completely disagree. Verbal contracts have no weight when you are talking anything over $500. So her cashing that check means nothing. From a legal perspective that money could be viewed as father giving money to his baby-momma-to-be (to use the legal term).

Actually, IMO, the "parents" have little legal basis to get sole custody in this case. From a parental rights perspective the surrogate mother is the biological mother. Now if the father can show in court that his household is a better environment then he can get primary custody.

 

[horuhe00]

From a contract law perspective I completely disagree. Verbal contracts have no weight when you are talking anything over $500. So her cashing that check means nothing. From a legal perspective that money could be viewed as father giving money to his baby-momma-to-be (to use the legal term).

Actually, IMO, the "parents" have little legal basis to get sole custody in this case. From a parental rights perspective the surrogate mother is the biological mother. Now if the father can show in court that his household is a better environment then he can get primary custody.

You can guess my opinion of lawyers as a profession.