Sunday December 9 9:34 AM ET 

Sperm Donor Must Pay Child Support - Report
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A court in Sweden has ruled that a man who donated
sperm for artificial insemination, enabling a lesbian couple to have three
children, must pay child support after the two women separated, a Swedish
newspaper reported on Sunday.

The regional daily Nerikes Allehanda said on its Internet Web site a
county court ruled that the man was undoubtedly the children's biological
father and hence obliged to pay child support of $265 per month after the
women's 10-year relationship broke up.

The verdict poses a legal dilemma, however, because under Swedish law a
sperm donor is not regarded as the legal parent of children conceived with
the help of his semen.

Sperm donors, however, are normally strictly anonymous, while in this case
the man was a friend of the couple and his identity as the father is in no
doubt.

The man has appealed. 

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