Episode 85: Embryo Mix-Up Shocker – Attorney Eric Wrubel

Eric Wrubel’s legal practice is devoted to handling complex family and matrimonial matters. He is accomplished in negotiating the amicable dissolution of marriages as well as taking these cases to trial if settlement is not possible. Eric has dealt with a large variety of issues in family and matrimonial matters, including complex equitable distribution questions, novel support and custody issues, as well as being on the forefront in same-gender marital issues. A skilled trial lawyer and appellate advocate, Eric was involved in the trial and appeal of the seminal case in New York dealing with the validity of foreign pre-nuptial agreements. He has litigated, written and lectured extensively on same gender marriage and divorce, civil unions, domestic partnerships and their tax consequences.

Listen to Eric as he discusses with Ellen and Jenn:
• The start of this incredible story, get your pens and paper ready!
• Couple M – Eric’s clients.
• Couple Q – Asian couple/ birth mom.
• Couple T – Armenian couple.
• All couples used the same California fertility clinic.
• Couple M gets call for a paternity test for “quality control”
• Couple M learning their embryo was transferred to Couple Q.
• Couple T’s embryo also transferred to Couple Q.
• Couple Q only transferred female embryos, but pregnant with twin boys.
• Couple Q give birth to “twin” Armenian boys, not Asian, like them.
• The emotional court ruling that Couple Q give the babies over to Couple T and Couple M.
• The fertility clinic’s response to the mix-up.
• Eric (happily) admits to being wrong on a previous episode.
• Eric’s next exciting case.

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