US lady loses little one’s parental rights to ex-wife and sperm donor

A lady within the US state of Oklahoma was compelled by a court docket to surrender her parental rights to her ex-wife and the kid’s sperm donor.

New Delhi,UPDATED: Feb 17, 2023 13:06 IST

Kris Williams (R) together with her son and ex-wife Rebekah Wilson in happier occasions.

By India Today Web Desk: A lady within the US state of Oklahoma was compelled by a court docket to surrender her parental rights to her ex-wife and the kid’s sperm donor.

According to an NBC News report, Kris Williams and Rebekah Wilson have been legally married in June 2019 and their child was conceived utilizing sperm from Harlan Vaughn. While Wilson carried the foetus to time period, each she and Williams have been listed as moms on the kid’s delivery certificates.

Williams and Wilson raised the boy collectively for greater than two years earlier than the top of their marriage. Soon after, Wilson and the kid moved in with Vaughn.

In January 2022, Vaughn filed a petition for Adjudication of Paternity and Establishment of Custody and Visitation – principally, searching for authorized standing because the boy’s dad and mom.

In court docket filings, Wilson mentioned she was co-parenting with Vaughn — who seems to have been a donor to at the least 13 different infants. The two have additionally had a second organic little one collectively.

On Monday, Oklahoma County District Judge Lynne McGuire dominated that Williams will not be the kid’s mom, regardless of being listed as such on the delivery certificates. She dominated that the custodial father is the sperm donor, Harlan Vaughn.

The choose cited that Williams was not named on an earlier sperm donor settlement Wilson signed and by no means legally adopted the boy to ascertain parental rights, as required by Oklahoma legislation.

As a end result, she was unable to show a mother-child relationship as a result of she didn’t give delivery to the kid and she or he didn’t undertake the boy. The choose additionally talked about that Oklahoma’s Uniform Parentage Act doesn’t bear in mind same-sex marriage.

Williams informed a neighborhood information outlet that she was “in shock” by the choose’s ruling. She mentioned the decision left her “shaking,” including “I mean pure terror, as a queer person, to be erased.”

Edited By:

Devika Bhattacharya

Published On:

Feb 17, 2023