Hodas v. Morin

Does a Probate and Family Court judge have authority pursuant to G. L. c. 215, § 6, to issue prebirth judgments of parentage and to order the issuance of a prebirth rec*545ord of birth, see Culliton v. Beth Israel Deaconess Med. Ctr., 435 Mass. 285 (2001), where neither the genetic parents nor the gestational carrier with whom they contracted to bear a child reside in Massachusetts, but where the contract specifies that the birth occur at a Massachusetts hospital? A judge in the Probate and Family Court answered that question in the negative, and dismissed the genetic parents’ (plaintiffs)…