Baby M was a gift. Born a month prematurely, with a tuft of her father’s dark hair, she arrived no bigger than a loaf of bread. Mike Testa peered into his daughter’s eyes and beamed. She looks just ...

Birger M. Sween, a Superior Court judge whose key ruling on visiting rights brought the landmark Baby M surrogacy case to a close, died Saturday at a nursing facility in South Brunswick. He was 86.

The legal fight over a baby born in New Jersey thirty years ago this month changed the world of surrogacy forever. Now the Shrewsbury lawyer who represented surrogate mother Mary Beth Whitehead in the ...