New York Divorce Report - New York's Divorce and Family Law Blog

Human organs are not assets to be distributed in a divorce. Thus is the ruling in  Batista v. Batista, the case in which a Long Island doctor sought compensation for donating a kidney to his wife, The National Law Journal reports that: At its core, the defendant's claim inappropriately equates human organs with commodities," Referee A. Jeffrey Grob wrote in Batista v. Batista, Jr., 201931/05. Grob noted that while the term "marital property" is "elastic and expansive ... its reach, in this Court's view, does not stretch into the ether and embrace, in contravention of this State's public policy, human... More