A year after the death of his wife, a man brought home someone else's child

The named mother of the deceased says that her daughter was not suitable for egg retrieval due to health problems.

A man in China brought home a baby a year after his wife's death, claiming she was born via surrogacy with her consent to claim a share of his beloved's estate.

This is reported by SCMP.

The case heard by the Shanghai court attracted public attention.

The wife, surnamed Qiu, died in 2021 due to an undiagnosed connective tissue disease and cancer. She and her husband, surnamed Lin, had no children before her death.

The joint property of the couple included two apartments in Shanghai and bank savings, the exact amount of which was not disclosed in the report. According to the law, Qiu's property must be divided between Lin and her 80-year-old parents. Her parents are named because they could not have…