Barbara Tufflife Case Summary

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The surrogacy contract between John and Mary Kulig and Barbara Tufflife should not be enforced. Ms. Tufflife was only twenty-five-years-old and having financial challenges when she was lured impulsively into signing the contract without a lawyer present and written by a shark surrogacy broker. In a similar case, a woman signed a contract that made her a prostitute for the rest of her life and a man gave her a monthly stipend was sued by the woman for breach of contract when he stopped payment. The agreement was held up in court as being illegal as this agreement is too because they both are against public policy. The gestational test whereby giving the child to its true natural biological mother would be in the best interest of the child.

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