Your client, an up-and-coming corporate executive, is much too busy to be slowed down by pregnancy . . . or a husband. She wants to become a single mom via IVF, a sperm donor, and a gestational carrier. She calls you, her CPA, asking whether the aggregate (and substantial) cost of this not-the-old-fashioned-way of reproducing will be deductible as a Schedule A medical expense. What is your advice, and why?

Your client, an up-and-coming corporate executive, is much too busy to be slowed down by pregnancy . . . or a husband. She wants to become a single mom via IVF, a sperm donor, and a gestational carrier. She calls you, her CPA, asking whether the aggregate (and substantial) cost of this not-the-old-fashioned-way of reproducing will be deductible as a Schedule A medical expense. What is your advice, and why?

Nutrition Now

8th Edition

ISBN:9781337415408

Author:Brown

Publisher:Brown

Chapter29: Good Nutrition For Life: Pregnancy, Breastfeeding, And Infancy

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