McDonald v. McDonald

OPINION OF THE COURT

Phyllis Orlikoff Flug, J.

This action for a divorce was commenced by the plaintiff on September 25, 1990. The complaint alleges that the defendant acted in a cruel and inhuman manner in that she, inter alia: “conspired with physicians at the Mount Sinai Fertility Clinic to secretly use eggs donated by an unknown woman, instead of defendant’s own eggs, and mixing sperm donated by an unknown man with plaintiffs sperm to artificially fertilize said donor eggs through a process known as ‘in vitro fertilization’.” (Complaint seventh. 1.)

The plaintiff claimed that the defendant…