Legally speaking who is a parent? It’s not a straight forward question for blended families, LGTBQI families, indigenous families with strong traditional kinship ties and children born via surrogacy or sperm or egg donation. The High Court of Australia is to hear a case commenced by a sperm donor known as Robert…

Identical twin brothers liked impersonating each other to sleep with lots of women. Now, both of their names will go on one baby’s birth certificate…

An Australian girl’s biological mother and her sperm donor father have spent $1.5 million on a court feud over whether the biological father, who has played the role as father to the child since birth, should have any parental rights. ..

A MAN who was paying child support for almost 20 years, says he wants his $58k back after finding out he isn’t the father…

A man has successfully sued his ex-wife after discovering she’d lied to him for more than two decades. But the cost of the truth has proved bigger than his bank balance…

A divorced mother, known by her court appointed pseudonym as Ms Stewart, has sought an Order from the Court that her two children, one boy and one girl, upon reaching high school age, should be enrolled in two prestigious same-sex private schools, the son of which to follow in the father’s family tradition, she claimed, and attend the father’s and grandfather’s alma mater…

A 16-year-old boy suffering from autism has been granted permission to begin sex change treatments, provided he has his sperm frozen in case he wants children…

A foreign same-sex couple has vowed not to leave Thailand without their daughter after a local surrogate mother rescinded permission for them to take the baby she gave birth to…

Paternity testing has long been perceived as upsetting, even traumatising or embittering– but as the technology becomes increasingly available in Australia, there may be real benefits to getting tested…

The spate of cases raises questions about the legal rights a child born to an overseas surrogate has in Australia, and what rights Australians who engage in surrogacy agreements have in Thailand and other countries..