by Jon_MacMull_Admin | Aug 29, 2014 | Blog, Uncategorized
The newspapers never talk about the thousands of airplanes that land safely every day. What makes the front page are the rare flights that crash. Similarly, when it comes to surrogate pregnancy, no one is particularly interested in hearing about all the wonderful...
by Jon_MacMull_Admin | Jul 22, 2014 | Blog, Uncategorized
As The Beatles song Back in the USSR trumpets with enthusiasm: “Georgia’s always on my my my my mind.” With the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the Republic of Georgia is now a separate country. They have their own laws. These laws are not the...
by Jon_MacMull_Admin | Jun 17, 2014 | Blog, Uncategorized
Is a dog different from silverware, or a television? Of course it is. A dog is alive. It has feelings. It is, for many good reasons, “man’s best friend.” When a couple breaks up and they divide their stuff, they don’t worry about whether the...
by Jon_MacMull_Admin | Jun 3, 2014 | Blog, Uncategorized
Being named as a parent on a baby’s birth registration is not the same thing as being legally declared a parent by court order. In the world of reproductive technology, this should be kept in mind — especially if you want to make sure you truly are a...
by Jon_MacMull_Admin | Apr 24, 2014 | Blog, Uncategorized
Suppose a child has three legally-recognized parents. Suppose further that two of them are in a couple, and they break up. Would this entitle the child to more total financial support than if there were only two parents? It’s an interesting question, and a...
by Jon_MacMull_Admin | Apr 4, 2014 | Blog, Uncategorized
As the old saying goes, “and baby makes three.” The numbers were updated in Ontario, however, when the province’s appeal court ruled that a child had three legal parents, hence, baby made four. This groundbreaking 2007 case, called AA v. BB, brought...
by Jon_MacMull_Admin | Mar 6, 2014 | Blog, Uncategorized
It’s hard to argue with the wisdom of Neil Sedaka, whose classic 1962 song captured an obvious truth: Breaking Up is Hard to Do. Thanks to the Ontario government, it just got a whole lot harder. The problem is that if you break up, the deadline for launching a...
