MUNCIE, Ind. — An appeals court ruled Tuesday that a man whose then-wife conceived two children using the sperm of a family friend must provide financial support for the youngsters.
The Indiana Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld an earlier ruling by Delaware Circuit Court 4 Judge John Feick that the children — born in 2004 and 2006, respectively — each qualify as a “child of marriage.”
When the husband filed for divorce in Feick’s court in October 2010, he acknowledged that “two children were born to (his spouse)” during their nine-year marriage, but said they were not his “biological children” and that he should not be held responsible for their financial support.
In its Tuesday ruling, the appeals court said after the couple married in 2001, they discussed having children, and were told by a physician that an effort to reverse the husband’s earlier vasectomy would likely be unsuccessful. Read full article.
