Americans, women, and paternity suits...
08 March 2005, 02:38 PM
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Americans, women, and paternity suits...
This item comes with a warning. It is legally fascinating and full of human emotion but not without its distasteful elements. It's about a new way of becoming a father, US-style. Here it is. Two doctors in Illinois have oral sex. Afterwards, Dr Sharon Irons, without telling Dr Richard Phillips, keeps the semen she took in orally and uses it to get pregnant. Two years later she brings a paternity suit against the unwitting sap, and wins a court order that he's the father; he now has to pay $800 a month upkeep for the child. (At least Bill Clinton escaped that.)
Phillips, understandably miffed at having to support the kid without even the pleasure of having been laid, returned to court with a wheeze of his own - accusing Irons of stealing his sperm and of causing him emotional distress, for which he demanded compensation. Her secret keeping of the semen was, Phillips said, a "calculated, profound personal betrayal"; he had trouble eating and sleeping and had "feelings of being trapped in a nightmare". His case was based on the premise that she had "deceitfully engaged in sexual acts, which no reasonable person would expect could result in pregnancy, to use the plaintiff's sperm in an unorthodox, unanticipated manner yielding extreme consequences".
Last week, an Illinois appeal court turned down his accusation of theft on her part and agreed with Irons's argument that, when he "delivered" his sperm to her, "it was a gift, an absolute and irrevocable transfer of title to property from a donor to a donee. There was no agreement that the original deposit [sic] would be returned upon request." (Is that "gift" tax-deductible, I wonder?) But the court did give him the go-ahead to pursue his claim for emotional distress.
From today's Grauniad.
Phillips, understandably miffed at having to support the kid without even the pleasure of having been laid, returned to court with a wheeze of his own - accusing Irons of stealing his sperm and of causing him emotional distress, for which he demanded compensation. Her secret keeping of the semen was, Phillips said, a "calculated, profound personal betrayal"; he had trouble eating and sleeping and had "feelings of being trapped in a nightmare". His case was based on the premise that she had "deceitfully engaged in sexual acts, which no reasonable person would expect could result in pregnancy, to use the plaintiff's sperm in an unorthodox, unanticipated manner yielding extreme consequences".
Last week, an Illinois appeal court turned down his accusation of theft on her part and agreed with Irons's argument that, when he "delivered" his sperm to her, "it was a gift, an absolute and irrevocable transfer of title to property from a donor to a donee. There was no agreement that the original deposit [sic] would be returned upon request." (Is that "gift" tax-deductible, I wonder?) But the court did give him the go-ahead to pursue his claim for emotional distress.
From today's Grauniad.
08 March 2005, 03:03 PM
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Afterwards, [she] keeps the semen she took in orally and uses it to get pregnant
Unless of course she ran to the bathroom, spat, inserted and came back out again...
Bizarre.....
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08 March 2005, 03:51 PM
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I've also heard of a case whereby the woman kept a full condom, discarded in the bathroom by the bloke, and used that to get pregnant. He also was successfully pursued for money.
Maybe guys need to perform more DIY before sex with a woman, of any sort, to dilute the sample.
Maybe guys need to perform more DIY before sex with a woman, of any sort, to dilute the sample.
08 March 2005, 05:47 PM
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That's it!
Next time I'm seduced by an American lawyer* I shall insist on giving her a pearl necklace and that she reverts with a soapy tit w**k. That should wash all liabilities down the plughole.
* lawyers permitted:
Amanda Donohoe
Portia de Rossi (and her scissor sister)
The black judge from Ally McBeal
Ally herself after a few burgers
Next time I'm seduced by an American lawyer* I shall insist on giving her a pearl necklace and that she reverts with a soapy tit w**k. That should wash all liabilities down the plughole.
* lawyers permitted:
Amanda Donohoe
Portia de Rossi (and her scissor sister)
The black judge from Ally McBeal
Ally herself after a few burgers
08 March 2005, 06:06 PM
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when he "delivered" his sperm to her, "it was a gift, an absolute and irrevocable transfer of title to property from a donor to a donee. There was no agreement that the original deposit [sic] would be returned upon request."
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