ESTATE OF KIEVERNAGEL

No. C055516.

166 Cal.App.4th 1024 (2008)

Estate of JOSEPH M. KIEVERNAGEL, Deceased. IRIS KIEVERNAGEL, Petitioner and Appellant, v. PATSY KIEVERNAGEL et al., Objectors and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

September 11, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Friedberg & Parker, Edward Freidberg and Suzanne M. Alves for Petitioner and Appellant.

Jay-Allen Eisen, C. Athena Roussos; Childers & Murray and John M. Murray for Objectors and Respondents.


OPINION

MORRISON, J.

In this case we must decide whether a widow has the right to use her late husband's frozen sperm to attempt to conceive a child where her late husband signed an agreement with the company storing the frozen sperm providing that the frozen sperm was to be discarded upon his death. We conclude that in determining the disposition of gamete material, to which no other party has contributed and thus another...

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