The in vitro process was done later and the daughter was born 4 years after his death, even though Mom was married to the deceased, but when she 
reaches the appropriate age perhaps she will be able to collect from social security. Survivor benefits and conception appear to have to occur together and California law grants inheritance rights to children conceived within one year after a parent has died. BD
AP) A 10-year-old girl conceived from the frozen sperm of a dead man cannot receive his Social Security benefits, a federal appeals court ruled.
A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld a lower court's rejection of child survivor benefits for Brandalynn Vernoff, who was born nearly four years after her father's death in 1995.
The case involved sperm that Bruce Vernoff's widow, Gabriela, had a doctor extract after he died unexpectedly from an allergic reaction. In 1998, she used it for in vitro fertilization and gave birth to Brandalynn in a Los Angeles hospital on March 17, 1999.
Gabriela Vernoff later applied for child survivor benefits from the Social Security Administration but was rejected. A federal judge in Santa Ana also rejected her claims.
I sincerely don't get the logic behind the rule.
ReplyDeleteI had to read it a couple times myself, a year?
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