Woman loses appeal over child’s birth certificate after ex-wife had sex with donor
A woman has lost a court of appeal challenge over her name being removed from a child’s birth certificate after her ex-wife admitted she secretly had sex with their sperm donor.
The child, referred to as X, was born amid an “informal conception arrangement” between two women and a man they met through an online advert, judges were told.
The couple, referred to as P and Q, met the man, F, for the first time in a pub in late 2016, hoping to find a sperm donor to impregnate P.
The women “formed a favourable impression of him” and the three of them then signed a sperm donor agreement, agreeing to use artificial insemination.
When two artificial attempts failed, the court heard how P contacted F for support and the pair had sex. P had been “very upset and depressed” about the lack of success and arranged to meet him at her parents’ house while they were abroad. She found him “friendly and sympathetic” and initiated the intercourse, a court was told.
P and F had sex three times at her parents’ house, unknown to Q, with the third time coinciding with a third artificial insemination attempt. Judges said it was “impossible to know which method of insemination led to [the child’s] conception”.
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