i was reading your post and thought i might clarrify something - "I was amazed that he trusted me (someone he had never previously met) not to come after him claiming child support. Of course I have no intention of doing this, but according to my lawyer friend, I am within my rights to do so if I pursued it through a court." I am not sure what you are referrring to here - but your friend on what you write is incorrect - the Family Law Act is very clear on this - children concieved on the basis of "artifical insemination" are not children for the purposes of child support - if you were to make a claim against the donor.
Child support would only be applicable if you and the donor had slept together and the "child was a product of that sexual intercourse" or if you had a relationship with the donor and again the child "was a product of the relationship". you would not be entitled to child support because your intention and his was clear from the beginning (based of course on the info given) that the child is a child from donor insemination.
exactly the same as access to the child - the donor does not have any legal rights in that regard. He will i assume not appear on the birth certificate and is therefore not a parent for the purposes of the Act.
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