Legal Requirements

Each surrogacy program provides legal services by evaluating the potential gestational carrier’s (surrogate’s) health insurance policy, drafting the Parentage Agreement (prior to conception of the child), filing all pleadings and appearing in court to obtain guardianship and parentage orders for the intended parents, and ensuring that the Bureau of Vital Records places the intended parents’ names on the child’s birth certificate. The goal is to ensure that, at the conclusion of the gestational carriers (surrogates) process, the intended parent(s) are the legal parents of the child.

The role of assisted reproduction has given hope to many couples in their quest for parenthood when other options for success were otherwise minimal or nonexistent. This field will continue to be a dynamic specialty of ever-changing technology to enable and increase this opportunity for couples and individuals to achieve their goal of parenthood.