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Response of Professor Field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Martha A. Field
Martha A. Field*
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School of Law, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
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As Professor Hill says, there is one important respect in which he and I agree with each other and disagree with what most states would do today. Faced with a surrogacy arrangement involving a dispute over custody, most state courts would decide the dispute on its own facts, according to the court's view about which parents seemed best for the child. Hill and I both stress that custody battles should be avoided, that parties should not have to go to court to find out who will prevail, and that courts should not decide disputes by comparing the parental characteristics of the particular parties. Instead courts or legislatures should formulate a rule of law that predetermines which party will receive custody in the event of a dispute.

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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , February 1991 , pp. 262 - 268
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Copyright © Association for Politics and the Life Sciences 

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