UK: Gay man seeks visitation of child after 'arrangement' falls through

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'Instead, this child was conceived by an arrangement between a gay father and a lesbian mother, both of whom were living with other partners at the time. Michael and Joanne were not even introduced through friends, but by the prosaic means of a classified ad, placed by Michael in a gay newspaper, requesting 'a lesbian partner for a mutually beneficial child-rearing experience'.

The couple, Michael reveals, had met each other only four times before they decided to proceed on this most emotive and important of joint endeavours.

Once their baby was born, there was intermittent contact between Michael and his son, but after three years Ms Skinner suddenly broke all contact and has since apparently absconded with their child. And so, today, Michael now finds himself engaged in a custody battle with a women he barely knows, which has already cost him tens of thousands of pounds.'