A child custody battle involving a pair of twins born in July to a 47-year-old Houston woman could make Texas law in situations in which women give birth to children conceived with donor eggs.
On Nov. 8, in two separate orders on motions for summary judgment, 247th District Judge Bonnie Crane Hellums found that Cindy Close is the mother of the boy/girl twins as a matter of law, and found no evidence to support Marvin McMurrey III’s claim that Close was a “surrogate or gestational carrier” of the twins. Hellums also found that McMurrey is the children’s legal father.
