Doe v. Doe

This dissolution of marriage case involves a custody dispute concerning a minor child who was conceived by artificial insemination between the defendant husband and a surrogate mother (surrogate) whose parental rights and whose then husbands parental rights, if any, have now been terminated. Although the surrogate turned the child over to the plaintiff wife and the defendant upon the birth of the child, and although both parties raised the child, who is now age fourteen, as their daughter, no adoption proceedings were ever instituted by which the plaintiff would have become the adoptive mother of the child.