parentage

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Florida law also allows non-biological fathers and mothers to establish their parentage via contractual consent when they conceive using donated sperm, eggs, or embryos.

From Slate • May 13, 2026

They function much the same way as surrogacy contracts, which similarly establish legal parentage through contract rather than biology.

From Slate • May 13, 2026

In a podcast with The Athletic FC, Rosenior highlighted how his star striker, Emmanuel Emegha, was labelled "difficult" and "emotional", but said he understood the Netherlands international with Nigerian parentage.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2026

That same year, Judge Pellman denied Xu’s parentage petition in Los Angeles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025

“Might she have been pregnant before she was taken upon the ship, as she always averred? Did she speak to you ever of my parentage? Whose child I am?”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson