Russian courts recognized the right to surrogacy of single women

On the 3^rd of October the Kuntsevsk District Court, following the decision of the Kalininsk District Court of Saint Petersburg, recognized the right of a single infertile women to maternity through surrogacy.

Several months before the Kuntsevsk department of the Moscow Vital Registration Office refused to register a child of unmarried woman, born through a surrogacy program. Child was conceived with use of donor sperm. The name of biological mother – client – must have indicated in the birth certificate. The court sustained a claim and obliged Kuntsevsk Vital Registration Office to register the child without indicating any information about father of the child.

It will be recalled that the first court decision on the same subject matter was delivered in Saint-Petersburg on August 5, 2009. A plaintiff, 35-year-old female resident of Saint-Petersburg, went to the law after the Kalininsk Vital Registration Office denied registering her child. The Court stated that such denial is illegal and obliged officials to register the unmarried woman as the mother of the child.

This judicial practice proves that unmarried women can apply to surrogacy in Russia and thereby exercise the right to maternity.

Appeared in Pravo.ru.

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