Chapter 23 - THE PARENTAGE ORDEREleanor objected.
Not to the birth certificate directly at first.
To probate’s reliance on legal parentage.
So Caroline filed for declaratory recognition supported by:
Marriage certificate.
Clinic consents.
Notarized intended-parent documents.
Medical records.
David’s recording.
Estate instruments.
Applicable assisted-reproduction law.
The judge did not rule from sentiment.
He reviewed statutes.
Briefs.
Precedent.
The legal question was much easier than the business-share question.
David had consented to donor-assisted conception during marriage.
Grace had been conceived before his death.
There was no competing claimant to fatherhood.
No donor asserting rights.
The court recognized David as Grace’s legal parent.
Eleanor’s DNA report did not change that.
The judge said something I remembered:
“Genetic exclusion answers a biological question. The court is presented with a parentage question.”
Almost exactly what Dr. Hall told us.
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Different disciplines.
Same precision.
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