Section 30.13 Custody When Intended Parents Have No Genetic Relationship to Child

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B. (§30.13) Custody When Intended Parents Have No Genetic Relationship to Child

In re Marriage of Buzzanca, 72 Cal. Rptr. 2d 280 (Cal. Ct. App. 1998), is a case involving a gestational surrogacy agreement in which both an anonymous egg donor and an anonymous sperm donor were used to fertilize eggs, and then the fertilized eggs were implanted in the gestational carrier. In Buzzanca, because neither the intended parents nor the gestational carrier had any genetic connection to the child, the child was born...