Not Quite as Puzzling as With a Sperm Bank Donor But, Still, Four Possible Fathers of Indian Baby in the Eyes of the Law
Nurse and Husband have a Baby.
Only Nurse alleges that she was raped … by Doctor … and his Son … and that Husband is not Baby’s father.
Nurse presses charges against Doctor and Son.
Doctor defends that he donated sperm so that Man could have a child via artificial insemination and a surrogate mother … Nurse.
Doctor is acquitted of rape charges, but there remains the question of: who is Baby’s legal father?
Is it:
- Husband
- Doctor
- Son or
- Man?
Indian Court orders DNA paternity test for Father and Son.
Meanwhile, Man presses charges against Nurse for keeping Baby and cheating him out of money.
Doctor seeks a stay of the paternity test, maintaining that the test could prove the child illegitimate and subject him to stigma.
Appellate court agrees and stays paternity testing.
Read more in this [India] Daily News and Analysis article: Can a baby have four fathers? SC stays paternity test.
