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According to Thai legal regulations toward this technology, none of

the third-party is generally considered an intended, legal or† çde jureé parent
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of a child born from his or her cells. However, in case of the third-party
as a sperm donor may later be eligible to seek and contact with his biological

child but not with parental rights or parental obligations instead it is the right
of the child to acknowledge his/her genetic father. After the child turn to

maturity, depending on the jurisdiction, in the Thai legal system, 18 year-old

is the age of legal maturity. Law regulates the sperm donor not to have the

right to address any responsibilities, parentage duty or procedural issues

towards his biological offspring in order to disregard the sperm donorûs
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biological link to the child. The child, as a result of this regulation, will be
protected from obligations to support their biological father no claiming the
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child custody.

In the past, the legal assumption under Thai law stated that the
woman giving birth to a child is granted the status of the legal mother and

another woman could become the lawful mother only through adoption.

According to the legal system in which surrogacy was not acknowledging,

without the legal intervention or any abandonment of the intended parent, the

maternity status belongs to the surrogate mother. If those jurisdiction does not

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Milliez, J. (2018). Surrogacy: FIGO Committee for the Ethical Aspects of Human
Reproduction and Womenûs Health. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics 102 (3).
p. 312-313.
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Acker, J. (2018). The Case for Unregulated Private Sperm Donation. UCLA Womenûs Law
Journal, Volume 20, Issue 1.
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Malvern, J. (2007). Sperm donor forced to pay child support after lesbian couple split. The
Times (London). Retrieved August 23, 2019. from thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/sperm-donor

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