Prolific Sperm Donor Could Have as Many as 400 Children

For nearly 15 years, two days a week, Kirk Maxey of Michigan made a sperm donation at a Michigan clinic. As a  result, he became one of the country’s most prolific sperm donors and estimates that he could have 400 children. 

Maxey learned that the clinic did not keep track of births resulting from his donations and began worrying about the genetic and marital issues that could arise.  He has since become one of the biggest advocates for improved government regulation of the sperm donation business. He also became one of the first volunteers for Harvard’s Personal Genome Project, which means that possible off-spring could discover he is their biological father by obtaining information posted on the project’s website. 

From an estate planning perspective,  all of this means that Kirk Maxey may need to consider drafting a will that narrowly defines his heirs.

For more information see, Rachel Lehmann-Haupt, Mapping the God of Sperm, Newsweek, Dec. 16, 2009.