PollenTree

A Single Man Co-Parenting With a Married Couple

If self-insemination takes place either by artificial insemination or natural insemination (intercourse) the woman will be regarded as the mother, but her husband will not be regarded as the father. Instead the donor will be regarded as the legal father.

He (the husband) will automatically have parental responsibility if he is named on the birth certificate otherwise he will have to rely on the mother entering into a Parental Responsibility Agreement with him or applying to the court for a Parental Responsibility Order.

However if treatment takes place through a licensed clinic for example, using IUI and the married couple agree in writing to the husband being treated as the legal father then he will be regarded as the father then the husband will be regarded as the father.

He will have parental responsibility because he is married to the mother.