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 […]
Monday December 20th, 2021
The National Council for Medically Assisted Procreation and the Portuguese Society for Reproductive Medicine are both praising a new law in Portugal, which allows for […]
Wednesday October 27th, 2021
When a couple wants to have a baby, but can’t naturally conceive a child of their own — or chooses not to — there are […]
Thursday August 26th, 2021
When children are born abroad to parents who are US citizens, those children are also considered to be US citizens, despite the country of their […]
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. […]
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
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
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
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
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 […]