A Hong Kong court has granted a local married couple a parental order for two boys born following a verbal surrogacy agreement in mainland China, ruling the applicants were merely ignorant that the arrangement was illegal.
But a lawyer said the ruling was unlikely to set a precedent as the circumstances of surrogacy cases varied.
Commercial surrogacy arrangements are illegal in both Hong Kong and on the mainland.
The High Court granted parenting rights to the couple on Tuesday. According to…

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