A PERTH woman has admitted to forging her estranged husband's signature so she could use a stored embryo to get pregnant.

Megan Jane Hooper, 41, pleaded guilty to one charge of document fraud in Perth Magistrate's Court.

The court had previously heard how Ms Hooper and her husband had created several frozen embryos in 2007, and the couple had a child in 2009 following IVF treatment.

Police claimed that in late 2010, she said she wanted to have a second child, but her husband was against it.

After the couple parted ways, Hooper forged her husband's signature on a fertility clinic consent form in 2011, giving her access to one of the frozen embryos and allowing her to proceed with her plan.

Hooper was handed a conditional release order for six months, fined $500 and given a spent conviction.

Originally published as Woman admits fertility fraud