(1) Will Halm's oldest daughter is one of the first generation of IVF babies born via surrogacy to gay dads.
(2) As a lawyer, Will Halm is proud to note that, of all the parental orders he has written, asserting parental rights for gay couples, no court has overturned a single one.
(3) If you had to contrive a family to illustrate historical changes in gay parenting law, it would be Halm, an attorney specialising in fertility law, his partner, Marcellin Simard, and their children.
(4) Static photographic evidence of the occurrence of cyclovergence is presented that supports and extends the result of Crone and Everhard-Halm (1975).
(5) When Halm and Simard had their first child, they were told by psychologists that they would be inadequate parents.
(6) 'To hear, "You are the legal parents" in a court of law, that was significant': Will Halm and Marcellin Simard with Harley, Luc and Malina.
(7) In California, Will Halm and his partner were the first gay dads in a surrogacy case in the US to win the right to have their names on their child's birth certificate, after a legal battle in 1998.
(8) "That judgment in 1998, with our second child, was really a critical point," Halm says.
(9) Photograph: courtesy of Will Halm In the US, commercial surrogacy is legal and therefore slightly less complex, depending on which state you're in.
(10) Halm's mother started to make comments on which of the two dads the baby looked like.