Judgment, 14 December 1987.
The Court held that a "father" has a right to visit a child born to his wife while they were married even if the child was conceived as the result of artificial insemination with the semen of another man.  It reasoned that any decision on this issue had to be decided by taking into account the best interests of the child and that the child needed two parents.  It noted that a legal motion brought by the child through the mother to have the child declared not to be the off-spring of the "father" had been denied.
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