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Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Professional Responsibility, Timothy M. Kaine
Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Professional Responsibility, Timothy M. Kaine
University of Richmond Law Review
This year, like many years, has been marked by increasing public concern over legal ethics. Public attention has been drawn to lawyers' participation in scandals such as the misuse of funds by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the collapse of the savings and loan industry, and numerous ethical breaches by members of Congress.
The Surrogate Mother Contract: In The Best Interests Of Society?, Audrey Wolfson Latourette
The Surrogate Mother Contract: In The Best Interests Of Society?, Audrey Wolfson Latourette
University of Richmond Law Review
On March 31, 1987, Judge Harvey R. Sorkow upheld, for the first time, the validity of a surrogate mother-contract in his decision, In the Matter of Baby M. In broad and sweeping language, the judge deemed the contract between the natural mother, Mary Beth Whitehead, (termed the surrogate, pursuant to the contract language) and the natural father, William Stern, specifically enforceable. Judge Sorkow thus terminated Whitehead's parental rights to the child she bore and permanently denied her claims for future custody or future visitation. Creating new law, the judge held that baby selling and adoption laws do not pertain to …