Judge's Ruling On Child's Legitimacy
NEW YORK. Wed.—A child born as a result of artificial insemination is legitimate according to a ruling given in the New York State Supreme Court by Mr Justice Greenberg. The decision was given in an action by the estranged husband of Mrs Julie Strnad to have access to their daughter, Antoinette, aged four, who Mrs Strnad said was born through artificial insemination.
Mrs Strnad obtained a separation decree and principal custody of the child in October and wished to prevent the husband from visiting Antoinette on the ground that she was not his offspring. The Judge said the husband had a right to visit the child. He considered that a husband who permitted his wife to be artificially inseminated was entitled to the paternity rights of a natural father. The attorney and special guardian j for Antoinette said that if the child had been ruled illegitimate the rights lof 20,000 children would have been I “affected.
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Northern Advocate, 15 January 1948, Page 5
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