Legality re: sperm donor

[SuperLambBananas]

Hi all,

My partner and I are looking to start a family with the help of a sperm donor.

We will be married before the birth of the child, or before conception, depending on timings so as I understand it as long as we register the birth together I have parental rights.

Our sperm donor is not through an agency (although trusted and Sti tested independentally).

We want official record of him as biological father, but we don't want him to have parental rights or responsibilities.

Is there a way to have him on the birth certificate without this extra legal burden?

If you don’t go through the clinic then he’s legally the father. I think he has fewer rights if you don’t name him on th birth certificate. There’s only room for two parents on the birth certificate.

I don't believe there is a way, but legal might be a better place to post.

I believe you'd need to get him to abdicate all parental responsibility through a solicitor? You should probably seek proper legal advice though

If you are married AT CONCEPTION then you are both the parents (unless you don't consent) even if the AI takes place outside of a clinic here.

There are only two parents so this means that you two will go on the birth certificate and he will have no parental esponsibility and there will be no birth record naming him.

Personally I would go through a clinic where the legal niceties are all tied up for you and there's a record of the donor plus formal ways to identify him later on etc. It also avoids hideous disputes later on about how the conception occurred and who should have rights etc. I appreciate that that's more expensive so you might not want to do so. This law firm here are the experts if you want advice (no connection) and there is some info on their website.