Sperm Donors Need To Cross Their Ts And Dot Their Is, Or End Up Like This Guy | Above the Law

In the Matter of Claudia B. v Darren M., the New York appellate Court recounts how the Petitioner (donor) and Respondent (Claudia B.) dated for a few months in 2009. After the relationship ended, petitioner asked respondent to donate sperm so that she could conceive a child, and he agreed. Drafts of a sperm donation agreement were exchanged between the parties. In December 2009, Petitioner donated 17 vials at a fertility clinic. Wow, 17 vials. No word on how big these vials were.

In any event, every good law school student knows that in contract law, there s no agreement until the parties have settled on the terms. Here, however, no final agreement was ever reached by the parties, and nothing was ever signed. The donor alleges that the clinic told him that Claudia B. would not be able to use his sperm without a signed agreement. So that was that he thought. It was over, and he wouldn t be a donor.

Except it wasn t.

via abovethelaw.com