Ayesha Vardag on whether sperm could be considered a marital asset ================================================================== ![Ayesha Vardag on whether sperm could be considered a marital asset](https://vardags.com/it-en/images/pictures/_360/e7c4b89a47216ef8108c20e901843c1f.jpeg)Vardags president Ayesha Vardag wrote for [The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/law/2012/sep/11/marital-assets-sperm?newsfeed=true) about a controversial cases in which a woman sought to prevent her husband from donating sperm without her consent. Ayesha explained that "*The unnamed woman feels that to have a child from a sperm donation arrive at their door would be like having introducing a child from an adulterous relationship into her family. Equally, she feels she would not be able to turn that child away or avoid emotionally engaging with him or her*." Ayesha also tackled some of the ambiguities surrounding the legal effect of sperm donation, explaining that "*A man who selflessly donates sperm to help friends or acquaintances conceive in more informal circumstances or without the woman's partner being married/civilly partnered to them will find that he, as the biological father, is also the legal father. That means he could be liable for child maintenance or even provision of a home for the mother and child*." Ayesha ultimately concluded that the woman's claim should fail, saying "*However, taking control of another person's right to reproduce, or indeed to donate blood, organs or make other such gifts of themselves simply because you are married to them is a bridge too far. Anyway, men bring abut the creation of children through extra-marital relations all the time. What are wives to do to control that?"* "A handful of firms dominate the so-called 'glamour' end of the market ... Vardags"![The Times](https://vardags.com/it-en/images/logo/thetimeslogo_white.png) "Ayesha Vardag - 'diva of divorce' for the world's super rich" ![BBC](https://vardags.com/it-en/images/logo/bbc.png) "Ayesha Vardag - the Queen of divorce"![The Daily Mail](https://vardags.com/it-en/images/logo/dailymaillogo_white.png) "Celebrity divorce lawyer" ![HELLO Magazine](https://vardags.com/it-en/images/logo/hello_logo_2.png) "Ayesha Vardag, a divorce lawyer widely regarded as one of the world's best" ![METRO](https://vardags.com/it-en/images/logo/whitelogo_metro_mag.png) "Vardags are both the Rolls Royce and the Ferrari of the family law world. The firm's strength and ability is remarkable. They take on unwinnable cases and win, they fight the unfightable and succeed and they relish the most complex and difficult of cases" ![Legal500](https://vardags.com/it-en/images/logo/legal-500.png) "A formidably strong family law firm which acts in the most high-profile cases of the country"![Legal500](https://vardags.com/it-en/images/logo/legal-500.png) "Vardags rightly attracts the best work in the field with ultra-high-net-worth clients and complex cases" ![Legal500](https://vardags.com/it-en/images/logo/legal-500.png) "Vardags attracts the very best quality of lawyers who want to get stuck into high asset value and complicated work, which it offers in volumes which I think is unrivalled by other firms" ![Legal500](https://vardags.com/it-en/images/logo/legal-500.png) "They attract such high-quality work because of their commitment to leaving no stone unturned, providing a gold standard service and thinking strategically at every turn" ![Legal500](https://vardags.com/it-en/images/logo/legal-500.png) More Divorce news ----------------- [Ayesha Vardag on the possibility of William and Kate signing a prenup](https://vardags.com/it-en/posts/ayesha-vardag-william-kate-prenup "Ayesha Vardag on the possibility of William and Kate signing a prenup") [Ayesha Vardag reveals the little things that matter during a divorce in The Lady magazine](https://vardags.com/it-en/posts/ayesha-vardag-the-lady-things-matter-divorce "Ayesha Vardag reveals the little things that matter during a divorce in The Lady magazine") [Ayesha Vardag on whether sperm could be considered a marital asset](https://vardags.com/it-en/posts/ayesha-vardag-could-sperm-be-marital-asset "Ayesha Vardag on whether sperm could be considered a marital asset") [TomKat Divorce: Ayesha Vardag talks to the Daily Telegraph](https://vardags.com/it-en/posts/tomkat-divorce-ayesha-talks "TomKat Divorce: Ayesha Vardag talks to the Daily Telegraph") [Don't let the divorce turn out worse than the marriage](https://vardags.com/it-en/posts/dont-let-divorce-marriage "Don't let the divorce turn out worse than the marriage")