One child with three mothers: who should have the custody

Fllyingfish

A lawyer shared an interseting case during a symposium on surrogacy in Zhejiang province.
Considering privacy, he didn't give out the names of the people involved.
A couple aged around 50 was considering having a second child, but the wife thought it was too risky for a woman at her age to do so. So the man decided to find a surrogate mother.
The man has a mistress, about 40 years old. He persuaded her to be the surrogate mother. But his mistress is also no longer young, so the man worried about the quality of her ovum. As a result he found a female college student through an intermediary, the student offered her ovum and the man fuse it with his own sperm. the zygote was put into the mistress's uterus.
Later the mistress gave birth to a boy. After weaned, the man took the baby home. Then the mistress became frantic about what he did. She thought she should be the mother of the baby and the man had no right to take her baby away.
They both consulted with lawyers but the lawyers thought it cannot make a case.

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markwu

The question is whether the mistress had sex with the man after the surrogate's zygote was implanted in her. If no, the baby came from the surrogate. Also, when implanted in her, the mistress also became a second surrogate. Surrogacy relieves a woman from right to claim ownership. So it is only the man who owns the baby since it was also not conceived by his wife.

But if he has good intentions and a compassionate heart which is what he should be concerned about if he wants to be a good father, he should bring up the child under the his own home with his wife, allow for the mistress to visit and be an auntie, and pay the surrogate well enough to complete her studies.

Of course the risk is there that his wife will leave him, the mistress will continue to hound him and the surrogate may start to claim the child later.

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Fllyingfish

markwu Post time: 2017-2-12 07:36
The question is whether the mistress had sex with the man after the surrogate's zygote was implanted ...

The surrogacy is not yet legal in China. And the way the man found the ovum donor is fishy. So this a illegal birth at the first place.

alexeagle

I belive the mistress just want to kick the wife off by  the baby , unfortunately she was disappointed , It seemd the man has tight ties to his  legal wife . so, It's a game , play with tri-part , and the mistress  is underdog .
I know in today's China ,  people prone to blame the mistress try to interfere the family . but it's only base on ethic level , the life nature rights of an innocent baby should be protected essentially and initially. so if I were the judge , I would put all benifit on the baby and punish every adult in this case .