{
  "code": "US-MN",
  "name": "Minnesota",
  "last_reviewed": "2026-07",
  "confidence": "high",
  "black_letter": "CURRENT (proceedings commenced on/after Aug. 1, 2024): Minn. Stat. ch. 257E (2024 Minn. Laws ch. 101). \u00a7 257E.10 defines assisted reproduction as a method of causing pregnancy other than sexual intercourse; \u00a7 257E.21: a donor is not a parent of a child conceived by assisted reproduction. No physician-provision requirement in those sections. Former \u00a7 257.56 repealed. CHRONOLOGY: ch. 257E was legislative reform effective Aug. 1, 2024\u2014it was not enacted in response to Edrington v. Sheridan. CASE: Edrington v. Sheridan, No. A23-1782 (Minn. Ct. App. Aug. 12, 2024) (nonprecedential)\u2014paternity petition filed March 2023 under OLD law; COA applied 2022 statutes (\u00a7\u00a7 257.62, subd. 5(c); 257.56; 257.55), expressly noted ch. 257E was not yet effective when the appeal was briefed and did not apply 257E retroactively. Held: donor cannot compel genetic testing under \u00a7 257.62, subd. 5(c); \u00a7 257.56 is a shield for physician-supervised marital AI, not a sword for at-home donors; no holding-out standing; dismiss with prejudice.",
  "ai_informal": "statute_protects",
  "ni": "not_recognized",
  "physician_or_clinic_for_safe_harbor": "no",
  "agreement_effect": "evidence_only",
  "key_citations": [
    {
      "label": "Minn. Stat. \u00a7 257E.21 (current)",
      "url": "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/257E.21",
      "quote": "A donor is not a parent of a child conceived by assisted reproduction."
    },
    {
      "label": "2024 Minn. Laws ch. 101 (ch. 257E; effective Aug. 1, 2024)",
      "url": "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/2024/0/Session+Law/Chapter/101/"
    },
    {
      "label": "Edrington v. Sheridan, No. A23-1782 (Minn. Ct. App. Aug. 12, 2024) (nonprecedential; pre-257E law)",
      "url": "/legal/opinions/US-MN-Edrington-v-Sheridan-2024-A23-1782.pdf",
      "quote": "Minn. Stat. \u00a7 257.56 acts as a shield for married couples who conceive through assisted reproduction, under the supervision of a licensed physician, from facing parentage claims from third-party donors. \u2026 But it does not act as a sword for donors to assert parentage based on positive genetic test results against married couples who used at-home assisted reproduction procedures. \u2026 [T]he plain language in Minn. Stat. \u00a7 257.62, subd. 5(c), prohibits donors of genetic material for use in assisted reproduction from using genetic test results to claim to be the biological or legal parent of a resulting child.",
      "official_url": "https://mn.gov/law-library-stat/archive/ctapun/2024/OPa231782-081224.pdf"
    }
  ],
  "emerging_law_note": "Do not describe Edrington as applying \u00a7 257E.21 or as the cause of ch. 257E. Statute effective Aug. 1, 2024 for new proceedings; Edrington (filed 2023) decided under 2022 code on Aug. 12, 2024.",
  "page": "/Pages/US/MN/mn.html",
  "region_group": "US",
  "status_badges": {
    "AI-Single": "Statute",
    "AI-Married": "Statute",
    "NI": "Banned",
    "Contract": "Unknown"
  }
}