Nacho Palau faced a new setback yesterday: the Supreme Court rejected the appeal that he had filed and in which he requested that both his ex-partner, Miguel Bosé, and himself, be recognized as parents of the four children they had in their day by surrogacy. Two of the children were biological children of one of them and the other two of the other.
The rejection of the high court is a "terrible" decision for the sculptor, and he shared it with his followers through a video on his Instagram account, where he explained what happened and how he felt at that "difficult" moment.
"Today, finally, my children have not been recognized for what they are from the moment they were born. They have been told that something they live and feel is not true: they have been told that they are not brothers," Palau began by saying, qualifying of "terrible" the decision of the Supreme.
"They have been told something against what they know perfectly well: that they do not have two parents. All this after five long, very complicated years for everyone," he continued explaining, before concluding the issue. Very depressed, he showed how he lost the last hope of him.
"The truth is that I don't know... I had a lot of hope and a lot of faith that this would be resolved better, but hey... I think we should try to take steps in favor of the moments we live in. Society advances and the laws too they have to move forward and catch up", he asked, before thanking his faithful followers for their support, to whom he sent "a strong kiss".
The ruling of the high court leaves no room for doubt: coexistence and affective ties are not enough to recognize the paternity of the two over the four minors, and explains that the way to have reached that point was adoption while Miguel Bosé and Nacho Palau were a couple. Moreover, the Chamber now declares that it is not relevant in the case that the four minors were born through surrogate motherhood during the couple's cohabitation, the affiliations being registered in the Spanish Civil Registry with respect to each biological father.
A factor in which, regardless of the sex of the couple, it is indifferent and insufficient to establish parentage, since the Spanish legal system establishes that the only viable channel was adoption while they were a couple, something unfeasible now that they are no longer together.
Of course, this ruling does not deprive children of their rights or affect their identity. It will be their respective parents who will have to make the most appropriate decisions to guarantee their relationship and coexistence as they consider appropriate from now on, being more appropriate, in view of all the concurrent circumstances, the resolution that accepted the judgment of first instance, which guarantees the effective right of minors to maintain ties and interact with those people with whom they have an affective relationship.
