The Weekly Law Reports
[2019] 3 WLR 1
Family Division
M v W (Secretary of State for Health intervening)
[2019] EWHC 648 (Fam)
2019 Jan 22;
Feb 12
Feb 12
Theis J
Children— Parentage— Declaration of status— IVF treatment with donor sperm provided to mother and same-sex partner as couple— Child born to applicant mother— Fertility clinic’s internal consent form signed before change in law permitting mother’s female partner to become parent— Whether such consent form valid consent— Whether declaration of parentage to be made in respect of mother’s female partner—
Family Law Act 1986 (c 55), s 55A (as inserted by Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (c 19), s 83(2) and amended by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c 22), Sch 11, para 97))
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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (c 22), ss 43, 44