Probate,
Family,
California Supreme Court,
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Mar. 27, 2018
High court can recognize broad aspirations of fertility patients
The 9th Circuit is asking the California Supreme Court to interpret the impact of a state law bearing on the parental status and inheritance rights of postmortem-conceived children.
Twenty years ago newlyweds Owen and Stephanie Delzer experienced infertility, joining the ranks of one-in-seven American couples who are unable to conceive by natural means. The Delzers sought treatment at a fertility clinic whose medical team recommended the couple undergo in vitro fertilization. As was routine in the clinical setting in 1998, Mr. Delzer provided a sperm sample, a portion of which was used to fertilize his wife's eggs and the remaining material froze...
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