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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]