article_snippet: The extraordinary arrangement emerged when a High Court judge ruled that her son can now adopt her son and become her son legal father – even though in the eyes of the law her son is also the infant’s brother.
article_snippet: The baby, now seven months old, was born at full term and now lives with his father.
article_snippet: Mrs Justice Theis (pictured) said that under the 2008 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act, which governs surrogacy arrangements, the woman who carried the child is the legal mother.
article_snippet: the woman who carried the child is his father because her husband consented to the pregnancy.
article_snippet: Rules stipulate that a surrogate mother must hand over a child to two parents –
article_snippet: Under the law, it would be a crime to hand over the baby to his father.
article_snippet: But Mrs Justice Theis (pictured) argued that the adoption would not break laws because the baby and the adoption are legally related already as brothers.
highlights_snippet: Judge rules her son can adopt her son and become her son legal father .
  