Judgment, 10 October 1986.
While married to the defendant wife, the plaintiff husband agreed to have a child by artificial insemination of the wife with the semen of another man. After the couple was divorced, the husband brought a successful action to disclaim paternity of the child born as a result of the artificial insemination.  He then attempted to have support payments agreed to in the divorce settlement set aside since he was not the father of the child. The Court ruled against him, holding that the child was a third party beneficiary of the contract between the couple to have a child through artificial insemination; as such it was owed an obligation of support by the plaintiff, no matter what the status of the child's paternity.
D001519:Behavior; D002654:Child Care; D002668:Child Rearing; D019049:Developed Countries; D005060:Europe; D005190:Family; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005195:Family Relations; D005860:Germany, West; D007315:Insemination, Artificial; D007603:Jurisprudence; D012098:Reproduction; D012099:Reproductive Techniques
Artificial Insemination--legal aspects; Behavior; Child Rearing; Child Support--legal aspects; Court Decision; Developed Countries; Europe; Family And Household; Family Characteristics; Family Relationships; Filiation--legal aspects; Germany, Federal Republic Of; Reproduction; Reproductive Technologies; Western Europe