{"id":1975,"date":"2008-07-10T09:41:27","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T09:41:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-07-10T09:41:27","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T09:41:27","slug":"sperm-donor-wants-to-be-a-father-legal-case-will-help-determine-the-future-of-donor-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2008\/07\/sperm-donor-wants-to-be-a-father-legal-case-will-help-determine-the-future-of-donor-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Sperm donor wants to be a father.  Legal case will help determine the future of donor rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daryl Hendrix donated his sperm to Samantha Harrington, who conceived twins.  Now Hendrix believes he has a constitutional right to parent the children.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Hendrix initially petitioned the Shawnee County District Court in Kansas with hope of winning parental rights.  Ms. Harrington countered by filing a paternity action. Hendrix testified that he and Harrington had an oral agreement to co-parent their children together. Both of those cases were dismissed by a district court judge, prompting Hendrix to appeal the decision in the Kansas Supreme Court. The Kansas Supreme Court decided, 4-2, that a sperm donor must have a written agreement with the mother in order to exercise any parental rights. <\/p>\n<p>On Monday, March 17, 2008, attorneys for Hendrix appealed to the United States Supreme Court, asking for the ruling of the Kansas Supreme Court to be overturned. This appeal will be a landmark case and determine the future of reproductive technology, alternative child conception, and donor rights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/uncategorized\/lesbian-moms-seek-child-support-from-sperm-donor-18-years-after-the-baby-was-born\/\">In a similar case in Pennsylvania<\/a>, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that the verbal agreement between the sperm donor and the mother was &#8220;valid on its face&#8221; and that &#8216;Biological parents cannot waive the interests of a child &#8211; a third party &#8211; who has an independent &#8220;right&#8221; to support from each one of them.&#8217; The Court ordered the sperm donor to pay over $1500 a month in child support, even though he was not named as the father on the birth certificate of the children. A British Court had a similar finding in the case of a man who donated his sperm to a lesbian couple.<\/p>\n<p><cite>Article adapted by ProudParenting.com from original press release<\/cite><br \/>\n<cite>Source: U.S. Newswire<\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daryl Hendrix donated his sperm to Samantha Harrington, who conceived twins. Now Hendrix believes he has a constitutional right to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[527,392,490],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sperm donor wants to be a father. 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