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Jaycee Louise Buzzanca is a healthy two-year-old with a problem. Although six people might qualify as her parents, a California judge has ruled that she is legally parentless. Her bizarre case is an object lesson in how far the law has trailed behind advances in infertility science...
After trying unsuccessfully for years to have a child, John and Luanne Buzzanca in 1994 arranged to have a fertility clinic combine an egg and sperm from anonymous donors. The embryo was implanted in a surrogate, Pamela Snell, a married mother of two, who contracted with the Buzzancas to carry the baby to term. But in 1995, a month before Jaycee was born, John Buzzanca filed for divorce and refused to provide child support...
Last September, Orange County Superior Court Judge Robert Monarch agreed that Buzzanca was not by any legal definition the child's father--and thus could not be required to pay support. He also ruled that Luanne Buzzanca was not the legal mother of Jaycee--although he noted that this particular problem might be solved if she adopted Jaycee...
Just days after Monarch's ruling, a California court granted temporary custody of Jaycee to Luanne Buzzanca and ordered John to pay child support until an appeal could be heard. Until that time, Jaycee's plight will continue to be, well, inconceivable...
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