Saturday June 5th, 2021
A recent announcement from the U.S. State Department is cause for celebration for many parents and parents-to-be. Under a new policy, children born outside of […]
Friday May 28th, 2021
Weeks after a Namibian court refused to issue travel documents for a gay couples’ infant twin daughters, born in South Africa through surrogacy, the government […]
Tuesday May 25th, 2021
We have been closely watching the case of the owner of The Surrogacy Group (TSG) in Maryland and Florida, who pleaded guilty in September 2020 […]
Friday April 23rd, 2021
With the passage of the Child-Parent Security Act (“the Act”) on February 16, 2021, New York became the latest state to legalize compensated surrogacy arrangements. […]
Monday January 25th, 2021
Monday January 25th, 2021
One Michigan couple is experiencing an unforeseen nightmare: The state’s legal system has twice denied them legal rights to their biological twin babies born with […]
Monday October 12th, 2020
Monday October 12th, 2020
There is an update on a story we’ve been following involving The Surrogacy Group, an surrogacy agency based in Florida and Maryland. In a heart-breaking […]
Monday September 14th, 2020
Monday September 14th, 2020
Children born to U.S. citizens have traditionally been considered citizens themselves, regardless of where they were born. However, a Georgia couple had to fight for […]
Tuesday August 25th, 2020
Tuesday August 25th, 2020
Last year, we shared the story of an ongoing legal battle involving two Israeli-born but naturalized U.S. citizens whose daughter, born in Canada to a […]
Monday August 17th, 2020
In 2012, a surrogacy arrangement made national headlines. Sadly, the little girl born from that arrangement, Seraphina Harrell, died recently on July 15 at the […]
Friday August 14th, 2020
In a previous blog post, we discussed a distressing side effect of the COVID-19 pandemic for individuals and families using international surrogacy arrangements. Due to […]
Friday July 24th, 2020
Lawmakers in Rhode Island’s House and Senate passed landmark legislation recently designed to address and overcome hurdles same-sex couples and unmarried couples face in obtaining […]
Tuesday June 23rd, 2020
If you have already started down the path of working with a surrogate to begin or add to your family, or if you are considering […]
Friday April 10th, 2020
Individuals and couples in New York who are considering working with a gestational surrogate to become parents no longer need to leave the state to […]
Tuesday January 14th, 2020
Tuesday January 14th, 2020
In a pair of legal decisions handed down in December just before the holidays, the French Court of Cassation ruled that both members of a […]
Tuesday October 22nd, 2019
Tuesday October 22nd, 2019
Here in the United States where surrogacy is an increasingly common way to start or add to a family, it is easy sometimes to forget […]
Wednesday September 25th, 2019
Wednesday September 25th, 2019
Intended parents in New Zealand are currently subject to the country’s Adoption Act, passed into law some 64 years ago. Under that antiquated law, parents […]