[Slings and Arrows]

The scr-w-ng you get for the scr-w-ng you...didn't get?

Seriesly, IIRC, I thought that the law exempted the donor in a documented sperm donation from paying child support. (Yep, I realize that there was no documentation here.) I also think that this law will be overturned by judicial fiat or jury nullification as soon as some sleezeball trial liar lawyer whines "It's for the CHILLLLLDRUN!"

[Fenris6]

This is why I shrug when I hear complaints about "Deadbeat Dads".

[Paleo Conservative]

I would never trust a verbal agreement about anything potentially worth over $1,000. For a sperm donor agreement, I would require a notorized contract.

[TommyDale]

Well, that does it for me. No more donations here, either!
I'm boycotting...

[traumer]

HA !!!

[dr_who_2]

One reaps what one (ahem!) sows.

[Lunatic Fringe]

After a two year affair, you have to wonder how he "donated" his sperm.

[Cronos]

Lawyers have already s****** this country.

[Centurion2000]

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) -- A state appeals court ruled that a verbal agreement between a woman and her sperm donor was invalid, and ordered the man to pay child support for the woman's twins.

Time for a sperm donor to disappear ..... to hell with the courts in this country.

[vetvetdoug]

This should be a wake up call for all of those J**K-Off idiots. Maybe it will become difficult for lesbo couples to get sperm unless its from David Crosby.

[Normal4me]

Aim low...shoot high.

[Balto_Boy]

I have no problem with this. The child support is for the children, and they never agreed to grant the father an exemption.

[REAGANBELONGS TO THE AGES]

Okay class, repeat after me:

"I will not marry a woman or let her become pregnant by me."

"This way I will get to keep all my stuff and my own sanity."

[traumer]

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

A state appeals court ruled that a verbal agreement between a woman and her sperm donor was invalid, and ordered the man to pay child support for the woman's twins.

A verbal agreement is not worth the paper it is written on.

[Caipirabob]

According to the trial judge's opinion, Ferguson and McKiernan met while working together and had a two-year affair. The relationship waned by late 1993, when Ferguson convinced McKiernan to act as a sperm donor with no responsibility for any child born as a result, the opinion said.

And he agreed to a verbal contract?!?

[Lorianne]

Give me a break. Anyone can claim "we had an agreement".

I hope the poor child didn't inherit his/her father's intelligence genes.

[No Blue States]

This guy wasnt a donor, he just got his estranged girlfriend pregnant.

[Robert357]

You left out a few details.

Ferguson and McKiernan met while working together and had a two-year affair. The relationship waned by late 1993, when Ferguson convinced McKiernan to act as a sperm donor with no responsibility for any child born as a result, the opinion said.

There was probably nothing "artificial" about this insemination. The Courts probably viewed it that way. I would be surprised if the woman had been artificially inseminated at a sperm bank that the courts would have reacted the way they did.

From my limited legal knowledge there are laws in some places against contracting for acts of sex (i.e. marriage contracts can not specify the frequency of sex and still be valid). This contract could have been just found null and void due to some technicality and therefore the court just found that the guy fathered the children.

In short, I think that some of the details have been left out of the news article so that it gets more attension.

[angkor]

"I now take this spermatoza as my lawful wedded husband."

[asgardshill]

Aim small, miss small.