SINGAPORE: A homosexual Singaporean man has failed in a bid to formally undertake his biological son fathered by the use of a surrogate within the United States at a value of $200,000.
The man, a health care provider in a long-term dating, to start with approached government about adopting within the city-state but was told a gay couple were unlikely to get permission, consistent with courtroom documents.
The couple travelled to the US where the doctor underwent procedures for in-vitro fertilisation and found a surrogate who agreed to carry his child for $200,000.
A son was born and as the biological father, the doctor — who has no longer been recognized — was allowed to bring him back to Singapore to live with him. The boy is now four.
The doctor implemented to formally undertake the boy in Singapore to "legitimise" their dating and expectantly secure him Singapore citizenship but a courtroom rejected his bid, consistent with a judgement launched previous this week.
District Judge Shobha Nair said that the doctor and his spouse were aware that procedures to assist couples have youngsters were available to just married couples in Singapore and there were no surrogacy services within the city-state.
Gay marriage is not authorised in Singapore. Surrogacy is not explicitly banned even if legitimate tips limit the apply in assisted replica centres, consistent with the Straits Times newspaper.
"The applicant, a medical doctor himself, was acutely aware that the medical procedures undertaken to have a child of his own would not have been possible in Singapore," said the judge.
"He cannot then come to the courts of the very same jurisdiction to have the acts condoned."
The child's welfare was no longer a subject matter within the case as he'll continue to be smartly sorted by his biological father and he is not stateless as he holds American citizenship, the judge said.
She was no longer swayed by the arguments of the person's attorneys, Koh Tien Hua, Ivan Cheong and Shaun Ho, who denied he was in the hunt for to undertake the boy to form what would successfully be a legally recognized homosexual family, the Straits Times said.
The man, a health care provider in a long-term dating, to start with approached government about adopting within the city-state but was told a gay couple were unlikely to get permission, consistent with courtroom documents.
The couple travelled to the US where the doctor underwent procedures for in-vitro fertilisation and found a surrogate who agreed to carry his child for $200,000.
A son was born and as the biological father, the doctor — who has no longer been recognized — was allowed to bring him back to Singapore to live with him. The boy is now four.
The doctor implemented to formally undertake the boy in Singapore to "legitimise" their dating and expectantly secure him Singapore citizenship but a courtroom rejected his bid, consistent with a judgement launched previous this week.
District Judge Shobha Nair said that the doctor and his spouse were aware that procedures to assist couples have youngsters were available to just married couples in Singapore and there were no surrogacy services within the city-state.
Gay marriage is not authorised in Singapore. Surrogacy is not explicitly banned even if legitimate tips limit the apply in assisted replica centres, consistent with the Straits Times newspaper.
"The applicant, a medical doctor himself, was acutely aware that the medical procedures undertaken to have a child of his own would not have been possible in Singapore," said the judge.
"He cannot then come to the courts of the very same jurisdiction to have the acts condoned."
The child's welfare was no longer a subject matter within the case as he'll continue to be smartly sorted by his biological father and he is not stateless as he holds American citizenship, the judge said.
She was no longer swayed by the arguments of the person's attorneys, Koh Tien Hua, Ivan Cheong and Shaun Ho, who denied he was in the hunt for to undertake the boy to form what would successfully be a legally recognized homosexual family, the Straits Times said.
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