Indiana Injury And Family Lawyer BlogSieglein v. Schmidt – Child Support of Baby Born Via In Vitro Fertilization
In 2016, there are many different ways of becoming a parent. Beyond the so-called “traditional method,” there is adoption, surrogacy, and in vitro fertilization.
With the advancement of technology, the legal sphere has been slower to catch up, but there has been some precedent set to settle disputes that arise.
The recent case of Sieglein v. Schmidt dealt with one such example, recently weighed in on by the Maryland Court of Appeals. The case had to do with establishing paternity when a woman who was married to a man who’d had a vasectomy became pregnant via in vitro fertilization (IVF). This is a type of assisted reproductive technology that involves manually combining the sperm and egg in a laboratory dish and then implanting that embryo into the uterus. Continue reading