Category: Parentage Orders
California Surrogacy Law Takes Effect Jan. 1
The new law provides guidance relating to the manner in which surrogacy agreements must be executed, when medical procedures can be commenced, and where parental establishment cases may be filed--many procedures already [...]
Texas Surrogacy Case Highlights Need for Legal Agreement
Since there appears to have been neither a written gestational agreement nor court preapproval in this tragic Texas case, the parentage of the child may be determined under Texas laws predating the state's adoption of the [...]
U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Survivor Benefit Case for IVF Children of Deceased Parents
U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Survivor Benefit Case for IVF Children of Deceased Parents. In vitro fertilization (“IVF”) after the death of a spouse is made increasingly possible due to the fact that the technology exists to [...]
New York court upholds and gives full faith and credit to a California judgment of paternity awarded to two men who had twins through gestational surrogacy [...] despite New York's public policy against surrogacy.