Several states whose high courts have decided cases in this area in the past 15 years or so have drawn the line between situations where the donor has no idea where the goop is going (I.e. he just donated or sold it to a legally-licensed sperm bank, with no control over what they did with it) versus situations where a specific donor knew there would be a specific identified recipient in advance, with no support obligation in the first case but an affirmative obligation in the second. In this situation though it sounds like Kansas has a statute that may directly control the case without resorting to hairsplitting over the meaning of any precedent cases.
Some times the Twilight Zone comes to town.
Sometime ago in Norfork VA. the darnedest case came up that still has ramifications for about 50+ family's.
Screw ball doctor at fertility clinic went round the bend and did the unthinkable.
How it was Suppost to work, -----When the husband was sterile for some reason, he and wife would come into doctors office and spend an hour going over pix of Medical students needing cash that donate [sell ] sperm.
Matches in race, blood type and eye color, body build were made to find someone most resembling the husband.
This was how it usually goes, However the Doctor did not take take everything into account. Being a Military Town with people moving in and out all the time he must have thought he would not get caught. Dumb s*it of a doctor did not think of the Military that retires or gets out to take a civilian job and stays in that area.
Up shot of this dastardly deed is a Female Doctor at one of the Military hospitals became concerned as the number of pregnant women she saw in one years time that had sperm donors was 10+ times the amount she saw in 5 years and all had been to this clinic in town.
She began to poke around talking to other female doctors in the area from other hospitals and alerted her CO that something was very fishy. The success rate of pregnancy's from that clinic was quite surprising.
Meanwhile the Doctor that headed up the whole shebang made a major mistake. He took a month off for vacation and someone he put in charge screwed up everything royal.
Seems a white woman gave birth to a Black child. Holy Crap broke out and the doctor had some explaining to do. Law suits ensued big time and records of successful pregnancy's sought. Clinic put up a patient privacy claim but the family's of the children began to waver that policy and some how DNA tests tracked the children's biological father to the scum bag doctor. At least 50+ children in school from K-6 grade involved.[ that they could find ].
All the legal top lawyers somehow managed to protect the Doctor and his clinic Until one woman talked others into charging him with RAPE. This brings another dimension to the case. Was the doctor responsible for child support ?? Stripped of his Medical license by the State but he could move out of State and get a new one under
clinics that were so far out west or even another country that had no idea of his past record.
Moral thing this: children of both sexes getting to the age of dating in a few years, What If.
Moral, sell your sperm and 20 years later wonder about who your daughter or son is in love with.
Life is a crap shoot, never know when something will come along to destroy it.
BTW all parents including the white couple with the black baby kept their children, Allot of divorces but that may have happend anyway.
