Sherri Shepherd appeals supreme court decision ruling her the mother of child born via surrogate
In April, a judge ruled that Sherri Shepherd is legally the mother of the child born to her and ex Lamar Sally via a surrogate ...
In April, a judge ruled that Sherri Shepherd is legally the mother of the child born to her and ex Lamar Sally via a surrogate, but Shepherd is now appealing to the Pennsylvania Supreme court to reverse the decision made by the Superior Court.
Shepherd claims that Pennsylvania law requires parentage to be proven either by “genetics/biology or by adoption.”
“The lower court usurped the power of the Pennsylvania legislature by finding this contract enforceable,” the petition states.
The supreme court is expected to make a decision within the next few months concerning whether or not they will hear the case.
Under the current ruling by the Superior Court, Shepherd’s name is on the birth certificate, and she is under contract to pay for some of the costs incurred by the “embryo carrier.”
“Justice was served,” Sally’s attorney, Tiffany Palmer, told E! Online after the Superior Court’s decision. “The court found that the baby has two legal parents and those people are the two people who conceived him, Lamar Sally and Sherri Shepherd.”
“The court upheld what we believe is and should be the law in Pennsylvania. If you set out to conceive a child through assisted reproduction and enter into contracts to do so, you cannot just walk away from your legal parental responsibility because you changed your mind.”
