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1: High Court agrees sperm donor is father as he was involved in girl’s life | June 19, 2019

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…

Catchwords: Biological Father, Biological Mother, Birth Mother, Court Decision, Equal Shared Parental Responsibility, Family Law Act, Fatherhood, In Vitro Fertilisation, Legal Proceedings, Parentage, Parentage and the Family Law Act, Parental Conflict, Parental Rights, Paternity, Precedent, Reproductive Medical Assistance, Same Sex Parents, Same Sex Parents, Same-Sex Parenting, Spends time with, Sperm Donation, Substantial and Significant Time

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2: Lesbian divorcees in modern age dispute over embryos | June 12, 2019

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

Catchwords: Biological Mother, Donor-Conceived Children, In Vitro Fertilisation, Legal definition of an unborn child, Legal definition of an unborn child, Medical Decisions, Parentage, Parental Rights, Parents refused to consent, Pregnancy, Reproductive Medical Assistance, Same Sex Parents, State based Sperm Donor Legislation

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3: Gay man fights to be recognised as father of child to lesbian couple | January 8, 2014

A MELBOURNE sperm donor dad has been granted access to his daughter despite the objections of her lesbian parents to his youthful partying ways. The man had been seeking shared custody of his two-year-old biological daughter that would have seen her living with him five nights a fortnight…

Catchwords: Biological Father, Biological Mother, Birth Mother, Parental Conflict, Same Sex Parents, Same Sex Parents, Spends time with, Sperm Donation, Surrogacy

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4: Tasmanian Upper House passes gay adoption bill | June 28, 2013

Tasmania may have been the last Australian state to legalize homosexuality, and the first to introduce civil unions, but it has now voted to allow same-sex couples to adopt non-biological children for the first time…

Catchwords: Adoption Act, Adoption Act amendments, Adoptive Parent, Same Sex Parents

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5: Giant legal leap for gay dads | February 8, 2013

Two gay dads have become the first in Australia to have started a family via overseas surrogacy and successfully gained full parental rights…

Catchwords: Parental, Parental Rights, Same Sex Parents, Step Parent, Surrogacy