Reber v. Reiss

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• considering that the trial court found that the wife had “no ability to procreate biologically without the use of the disputed pre-embryos”
• balancing an interest in having a biological child against an interest in avoiding unwanted procreation
• determining without explicitly adopting a test that the balancing approach used by the trial court was the most suitable
• addressing issue of first impression that arose as a result of advances in reproductive technology, i.e., “the contested disposition of frozen pre-embryos in the event of divorce”
• “Wife testified that she underwent IVF only after she was diagnosed with breast cancer, after consultation with her doctor, and then she delayed chemotherapy by two to three weeks to undergo the process.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).