MORE families are taking steps to confirm their children’s parentage but it doesn’t have to be a harrowing experience…

The High Court has found a man who donated his sperm to a lesbian friend to have a child is the father, due to his involvement in the child’s life…

A woman has asked the Family Court to order the destruction of 12 embryos — even though she has no genetic link to them…

Women will no longer need the approval of their former partner to access IVF in Victoria using their own eggs and donor sperm…

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…