Friday July 24th, 2020
Canada is the latest country to update its legal framework to recognize and protect modern families. Canadian parents whose children are born abroad through assisted […]
Saturday March 7th, 2020
In a ruling that serves to illustrate changing attitudes about what constitutes a family, Israel’s Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision recently stating that some […]
Monday November 18th, 2019
Same-sex marriage has been legal in Ireland since 2015. However, under current law, same sex couples who become parents are not automatically afforded parental rights. […]
Monday August 12th, 2019
Same-sex couples in Utah are celebrating a recent Utah Supreme Court decision which overturned an outdated state law governing surrogacy. That law prohibited same-sex couples […]
Wednesday February 6th, 2019
For individuals and couples embarking on the surrogacy journey to start or add to their families, one of the biggest hurdles is cost. When intended […]
Friday July 20th, 2018
In a victory for single, heterosexual or lesbian women and lesbian couples in France, the country’s highest court recently ruled that there are no constitutional […]
Thursday July 19th, 2018
Driven in part by women waiting until they are older before trying to conceive, the birth rate in Spain is among the lowest in Europe. […]
Wednesday June 6th, 2018
In a narrow U.S. Supreme Court ruling on June 4, 2018, seven of the court’s nine justices upheld the rights of a Colorado baker who […]
Friday May 11th, 2018
Unfortunately, the rights of same-sex couples varies greatly in different countries around the world. A recent decision in Turin, Italy to allow three same-sex couples […]
Thursday April 12th, 2018
A Mississippi court ruling that awarded parental rights to an anonymous sperm donor over the child’s other parent after the couple’s divorce was recently overturned […]
Tuesday February 20th, 2018
A NY appellate court ruled recently that a sperm donor does not have any parental rights over the biological child who was conceived using his […]
Friday January 12th, 2018
Most news stories about same-sex couples fighting about parental rights deal with a non-biological or non-adoptive parent who is fighting for their rights to care […]
Monday January 8th, 2018
The mission for The Surrogacy Law Center this year remains the same: To help as many people as possible achieve the family they always dreamed […]
Wednesday December 27th, 2017
For The Surrogacy Law Center 2017 was a year of moves. The Law firm moved to a new offices in Carlsbad that offers the staff […]
Tuesday December 19th, 2017
In a ruling that’s being seen as a “win” for parents who adopt, conceive via in-vitro fertilization (IVF) or add to their families through surrogacy, […]
Friday December 15th, 2017
A pending legal case in the Mississippi court system is being watched closely by in-vitro fertilization and gay-rights advocates. At issue is whether a non-biological […]