Gay dads in custody battle with surrogate mum as she demands ‘unreasonable amount of access’ to child they paid £20,000 for
The woman was ordered to hand the child over to the pair after she denied them access following the birth, and is now herself demanding increased access
TWO gay men are in a bitter custody battle with the surrogate mum they used to have a baby.
The pair, called G and J in legal papers, paid the woman £12,000 expenses after meeting her on a Facebook surrogacy forum.
They also paid a clinic abroad £8,000 to fertilise the egg with G’s sperm. But shortly before giving birth in April 2016 the woman, known as K, decided to keep the baby and refused the men access.
In a High Court ruling, Mrs Justice Theis gave custody to G and J in December — with K allowed six visits a year.
But the mum, who has a number of children of her own and has been a surrogate in the past, appealed.
She and her husband are demanding increased access to the child, known as EM.
A decision is due tomorrow at the High Court in London.
G, 43, said: “All we ever wanted was a family together.
“We thought we had an agreement with this woman and everything would be OK. Our daughter calls both of us daddy and barely asks for her mummy.
“It’s really distressing but we knew we had to stand up and fight so we could have the child we had always wanted.
“We are not preventing her from seeing EM but just think she is being unreasonable in the amount of access she is now requesting.”
