Surrogate's Death Triggers Baby Custody Battle | New Amsterdam

The fact that the parents had no idea that Lynn was a surrogate or that this guy was her best friend, leads me to believe that they weren't that close with their daughter and maybe weren't that great of parents after all.

This is what gets me, Lynn was not the egg donor, which makes the child no genetic relation to them at all. The father IS the biological father, and yet, he can't take his child home. A contract is a contract. This episode made no sense

Why are they putting pressure on the bio father to give up his claim and not the parents who didn't even know the baby existed?

None of this was touching. Lynn’s parents are cruel and clearly not a part of her life if THEY DIDN’T KNOW SHE WAS PREGNANT I’ve seen these swoop in at the last minute to disrupters get on my nerves. The person’s wish are clearly stated.

The court system is broken that they think sending the baby to foster care instead of choosing someone who loves and cares for him. Makes me angry beyond belief. This broke me i was so thrilled that the father got his baby after all but in most cases like this thats not the case.

If the biological mother is incapacitated, wouldn't custody automatically go to the biological father? I'm so confused.

How do you tell your not-grandson that he did have a dad who loved him but you won custody on a technicality

Her parents had no rights to that child. This was ridiculous.

Question. So the fact that she called him the father when they arrived in the emergency room, verify identify him as the father of the child?

The laws need to change. He is the biological father, ready and prepared to care and love for a newborn, but the idiot grandparents have more claim? Just absolutely ridiculous.

Love how the court systems ruling is that instead of making one party unhappy, and the other party and the baby happy, let’s make them all unhappy

This was a bonkers episode. The grandparents had no legal claim over a biological father AND what judge was going to pick aging non biological parents over the bio father who has all the baby supplies waiting as he was prepared for the baby. What were the parents going to do??? Put the baby in a shoebox while taking care of their hospitalized daughter and their own health??? It would have taken one conversation to convince them but they had to make an episode out of it…

The fact that the father was willing to give up his child so he shouldn't have to be in foster care proves that he's the better parent.

Technically this has already been solved, as gestational carriers have already been found not to have rights to a child over the bioparents, even in states like NY.

I don’t get how the bio dad wouldn’t get custody over grandparents.

that lady really said that the son who is genetically related to her daughter is the only piece of her daughter she has....Grandma....you're not related to that kid

Yeah she's a surrogate but woudnt he be the biological father or something? How can his rights be violated like this

I respect the parents of Lynn when they gave the father the baby. I hope in that moment, the father would still recognize her parents as honorary grandparents and that Robin would be able to grow up with all three people loving him unconditionally. Where her parents could still see the life she brought into the world with her body even when genetically and biologically he is not hers and the father could still raise the baby with all the love he can give

Everyone who is confused about how he lost custody this should clear some of it up. Yes, he is the bio dad and he would have rights, but because of the contract thats based in new Jersey, they need a higher court to decide on the case. No, surrogacy was not all way legal in newyork, Because of that new york has no jurisdiction. And thats how he lost custody. New york cant legally give him the child and they cant legally give the girls parents custody either. So both lose custody. Its a horrible technicality.

Isn't he the biological father still? Wouldn't he have a custody claim anyway, if the mom was incapacitated?