TV personality Sherri Shepherd is in a full-out battle with her ex-husband Lamar Sally and the Pennsylvania courts right now over the custody of her surrogate baby. Before splitting with her ex in April 2014, the two decided to have a baby via a surrogate and an egg donor. However, the couple ended up breaking things off before the baby was actually born, and that has led to a whole lot of drama between Shepherd and Sally over parental and financial responsibilities.
Sally now has custody of the surrogate baby, who is named Lamar Sally Jr., but he wants Shepherd to pay him child support in the amount of $4,100 a month. Shepherd has been trying to argue that she is not legally the mother of Lamar Jr. because she never legally adopted him after he was born in July 2014 and there is also no biological relation.
Shepherd has been in and out of court over this past year, trying to exempt herself from being Lamar Jr’s legal parent. In April of this past year, the Pennsylvania Superior court officially ruled against Shepherd and determined that she is the legal mother of the child. She tried to appeal the decision last November, requesting to have her name removed from the baby’s birth certificate, but her appeal was denied. Now, according to E! News, she is taking things one step further and requesting to have her appeal heard by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, stating that “Pennsylvania law requires parentage to be established by “genetics/biology or by adoption.””
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will decide over the next few days whether they will even hear her case and from there, we’ll see what happens next in the ongoing saga between these two.
Source: E! News
