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· 3/28/1986

Jhordan C. v. MARY K.

Citations

  • 179 Cal. App. 3d 386
  • 224 Cal. Rptr. 530
  • 1986 Cal. App. LEXIS 1405

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that when no doctor was involved in sperm donation or in artificial insemination, sperm was never “provided to a licensed physician” so donor fell outside statutory nonpaternity provisions
  • finding that where the statute specifies that the semen be provided to a licensed physician, if the artificial insemination occurred outside of the guidance of a physician, the statute does not apply
  • court analyzes applicability of artificial insemination statute despite parties' ignorance of it
  • physician involvement essential to obtain donor’s complete medical history which child may later need and creates a formal structure for donation which reduces misunderstandings of the relationship between donor and recipient and donor, recipient and child
  • physician involvement essential to obtain donor's complete medical history which child may later need and creates a formal structure for donation which reduces misunderstandings of the relationship between donor and recipient and donor, recipient and child
  • court analyzes applicability of artificial insemination statute despite parties’ ignorance of it

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Judges: King

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