Bangkok (CNN)Bud Lake is terrified. Since his daughter Carmen was born six months ago, using a surrogate in Thailand, he's known the Thai police, social services or the surrogate mother could take her away.
"I have no legal rights over Carmen. The woman who gives birth has all legal rights," he told CNN from the Bangkok apartment he shares with husband Manuel Santos, their two-year-old son and baby Carmen.
The drama began a week after Carmen was born in January. The day before Lake planned to take Carmen to get a U.S. passport, he received a text from the translator for Patidta Kusolsang, the surrogate mother. She said she wanted to keep the baby.
Now Carmen's future is in the hands of the Thai courts.