The woman who carries out the day-to-day job of mothering.
The woman whose egg led to the creation of the child.
The woman who gives birth to the child.
The woman a reasonable person would say was the mother.
What is a surrogacy arrangement?
Where a child has been taken into care by the local authority .
Where a child is born using donated sperm.
Where a child is born using a donated egg.
Where a couple ask a woman to carry a child for them.
What is the 'pater est' presumption?
That the genetic father of a child is the legal father.
That the child has no father unless DNA tests are done.
That the husband of a woman who gives birth is the father of the child.
That a man who was sleeping with the mother at the time of conception is the father of the child.
If a woman gives birth following treatment at a licensed clinic using donated sperm, which of the following could not be treated as the father of the child?
The husband of the woman.
The male partner of the woman if they were receiving treatment services together.
The sperm donor.
Which of the following is closest to the statutory definition of parental responsibility?
The rights, duties, powers, responsibilities and authority which by law a parent of a child has.
The legal status of parenthood as understood by the law.
A stamp of approval to demonstrate that the parent is a committed parent in the eyes of the law.
Which of the follow groups of fathers do not automatically get parental responsibility?
Fathers who are married to the mother.
Fathers who have entered parental responsibility agreements.
Fathers who have successfully applied for a parental responsibility order.
Father who pay child support.
Fathers who are registered as fathers on the birth certificate.
If someone who is not a parent of a child needs parental responsibility, what is the most likely way a court will give to them?
Make a parental responsibility agreement.
Make a parental responsibility order in their favour.
Make a specific issue order .
Make a residence order in their favour.
In a case of a surrogacy where the child has been handed over by the surrogate mother to the commissioning couple, what orders can the coupe apply for in order to become parents of the child?
A prohibited steps order or a special guardianship order.
A parental responsibility order or a residence order.
A parental order or an adoption.
There is no such order that can be made.
Over what kind of issues should those with parental responsibility consult?
Over issues where the child has strong views.
Over issues which are fundamental and important.
Over issues which are in the public interest.
Over those which affect the welfare of the child.
Over issues which have financial implications.
Which mothers get parental responsibility automatically?
Women who apply to the court for parental responsibility.
Women who are entered on the birth certificate.
All mothers get parental responsibility automatically.
