The Issue of Inheritance in Artificial Insemination

Along with modern medical advances encouraging the infertile couples for childbearing, there have been many legal concerns, where arriving at legitimate solutions requires to integrate of medical and legal perspectives; therefore, the establishment of a specialist filed such as medical law turns out to be inevitable. The artificial insemination after the death of the owner of the sperm (i.e. the father) provides a significant challenge, and poses conflicts as to the lineage of the newborn, obtaining an identity card, as well as its inheritance. The present article intends to investigate the inheritance of IVF newborns, after the death of the owner of the sperm (i.e. the father); also, it intends to legitimize generalities and reasons for the naturally conceived baby by distinguishing between an IVF fetus and a naturally conceived fetus. The authors believe that the IVF baby born after the death of the owner of the sperm is commonly considered the child of the deceased father, and there is no jurisprudential barrier for its inheriting from the father. Therefore, such a newborn will inherit from the father.