{"id":530,"date":"2024-05-01T09:52:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T09:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/ohio-court-rules-embryos-arent-marital-property-reversing-division-ruling\/"},"modified":"2024-05-01T09:52:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T09:52:15","slug":"ohio-court-rules-embryos-arent-marital-property-reversing-division-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/ohio-court-rules-embryos-arent-marital-property-reversing-division-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Court Rules Embryos Aren&#8217;t Marital Property, Reversing Division Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>An Ohio appellate court reversed a trial court\u2019s decision to evenly split a divorced couple\u2019s embryos between the man and woman, concluding the lower court erred in applying a contractual approach to\u00a0embryos in dividing them as marital property instead of a balancing method.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1vaMR3uioODPwOcVykpJc1oHbwwke1gVD\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">April 17 opinion<\/a>, the Ohio Ninth Judicial District Court of Appeals majority\u00a0agreed with\u00a0the wife, identified by the initials\u00a0E.B.N., who is also an attorney, who challenged a lower court\u2019s ruling of the division of frozen embryos during a divorce from her husband, R.N.\u00a0She argued that the trial court erred in\u00a0applying a fertility clinic\u2019s declaration of intent contract without balancing the parties\u2019 interests when determining the proper disposition of the 14 frozen embryos.\u00a0The wife wished to use the embryos to become pregnant, while R.N. wanted the embryos donated to couples looking to conceive.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Ohio appellate court reversed a trial court\u2019s decision to evenly split a divorced couple\u2019s embryos between the man and woman, concluding the lower court erred in applying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[681,143,685,680,682,679,683,684,351,686],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-arent","tag-court","tag-division","tag-embryos","tag-marital","tag-ohio","tag-property","tag-reversing","tag-rules","tag-ruling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}