Friday January 28th, 2022
Friday January 28th, 2022
The Minister for Foreign Affairs has been ordered by the High Court to make a decision regarding whether a boy born in the UK can […]
Friday January 28th, 2022
Friday January 28th, 2022
In 2017, a Chinese garment factory owner was arrested on human trafficking charges. Allegedly, Wu Wenjun and his wife were accused of trying to take […]
Sunday August 15th, 2021
A US couple has withdrawn their Australian defamation case against ABC, after they originally alleged the broadcasting company had portrayed them in a bad light, […]
Saturday July 24th, 2021
Current Israeli laws bar single men and same-sex male couples from surrogacy arrangements. However, those restrictions will be lifted by the end of this year. […]
Tuesday June 15th, 2021
People Magazine recently broke the news that musician and actor Lance Bass and his husband, Michael Turchin, are to become fathers later this year, to […]
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. […]
Wednesday March 24th, 2021
Wednesday March 24th, 2021
When San Diego-based doctor and university professor Ian Jenkins went to court in 2017 to obtain a parentage order for his child born through surrogacy, […]
Friday February 26th, 2021
Friday February 26th, 2021
New Yorkers who want to become parents through assisted reproduction (and those who want to help others do so) got a belated Valentine’s Day gift […]
Friday January 29th, 2021
Friday January 29th, 2021
Dealing with infertility and deciding to work with a gestational carrier or surrogate to have a baby can send new parents on a roller coaster […]
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 […]
Tuesday October 20th, 2020
Tuesday October 20th, 2020
The idea of the “traditional” family unit in the United States, with two opposite-sex parents married to each other, changed fundamentally with the legalization of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Tuesday June 23rd, 2020
When choosing from among available sperm donors, intended parents can review and make decisions based on a variety of donor characteristics, including race. In the […]