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            Gay Parents Fight for Custody With Surrogate in Thailand

   by Associated Press

   An American-Spanish same-sex couple has opened a high-profile custody
   battle in Thailand for a baby girl born to a surrogate mother, who
   decided she wanted to keep the child when she found out they were gay.

   The couple - Gordon Lake and Manuel Santos, both 41 - have been stuck
   in Thailand since launching their legal battle after Carmen was born in
   January 2015.

   Lake is the biological father of baby Carmen, while the egg came from
   an anonymous donor, not the Thai surrogate.

   The case is complicated by the fact that Thai law does not recognize
   same-sex marriages and also by a new law that took effect after baby
   Carmen's birth, which outlaws commercial surrogacy.
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