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Judge grants paternity test to surrogate twins

After receiving support from Netanyahu, homosexual father stuck in India can finally bring kids home

Family Court Judge Phillip Marcus, who recently refused to grant a paternity test to Dan Goldberg, a homosexual father to twins born to a surrogate mother in India, approved the test late Monday evening.

 

Earlier Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Knesset he had asked Interior Minister Eli Yishai to allow the father to return to Israel together with the twins.

 

The judge wrote in his verdict that he had decided to approve the test after receiving authority to do so from the Jerusalem District Court, as well as a statement from the prosecution saying the state was not opposed to it. He had previously claimed the decision was not within his jurisdiction.

 

During the Knesset debate on the matter MK Meir Sheetrit said, "As former interior minister I know there is no justification for keeping them out of Israel. If I were interior minister I would try to bring them to Israel after they had passed a DNA test."

 

Netanyahu replied, "This morning I appealed to the interior minister and asked him to solve the problem in accordance with the law, and bring them to Israel. They need to be brought here."

 

Goldberg and his two newborn children, Itai and Liron, have been in India for almost two months because Judge Marcus had rejected their appeal for a paternity test – a procedure generally granted in such situations – claiming its approval was "beyond his jurisdiction".

 

Earlier Monday the State Prosecutor's Office informed the court that the state had no objection to the test and that no hearing was required on the matter.

 


פרסום ראשון: 05.17.10, 20:12
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