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The American Bar Association Conference Update

Rich Vaughn with Carole A. Bass and Steven Weissman were panelists at the annual Continuing Legal Education Conference of the American Bar Association in Philadelphia on Oct. 12, speaking on “What Every Assisted Reproduction Lawyer Needs to know about Estate Planning.”

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October 22, 2012

American Bar Association / Assisted Reproductive Technology / Rich Vaughn Article / Surrogacy Latest News / Uncategorized

ABA Panel Focus on Estate Planning for ART Families

I'll be part of a panel on estate planning for ART families at the Continuing Legal Education Conference of the American Bar Association in Philadelphia Oct. 10-13.

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October 9, 2012

LGBT News / Rich Vaughn Article / Same Sex Marriage / Same Sex Parents / Uncategorized

DOMA Likely to Get Supreme Court Hearing This Session

The U.S. Supreme Court returned from its summer break to face the largest number of LGBT equality cases it has ever faced in a single term. Three critical cases have the potential to make significant changes in how the government embraces the LGBT community.

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October 8, 2012

Assisted Reproductive Technology / Family Law / Rich Vaughn Article / Surrogacy Latest News

Governor Signs California Surrogacy Bill

Just signed by Gov. Jerry Brown, the new law is the most significant surrogacy legislation ever enacted in California and may serve as a model for legislation in other states, offering legal protection for family formation via artificial reproductive technology (ART) and surrogacy.

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September 26, 2012

Family Law / IFLG / LGBT News / Rich Vaughn Article / Surrogacy Latest News / Uncategorized

‘New Normal’ Promises to Expand Concept of Family

The show features a non-traditional “family” that includes a gay male couple, the surrogate with whom they are having a baby, the surrogate’s young daughter, the surrogate’s disapproving and deeply prejudiced mother, and the daughter’s biological father.

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September 17, 2012

Adoption / Family Law / IFLG / LGBT News / Rich Vaughn Article / Same Sex Marriage / Same Sex Parents / Surrogacy Latest News

Utah’s ‘Normal’ Narrowly Defined

As demonstrated by the state legislature’s commendable move to protect all parties in surrogacy arrangements by passing AB 1217, California non-traditional families are lucky. In contrast, in Salt Lake City, Utah, The New Normal, a new TV sitcom about a gay male couple who are becoming dads via surrogacy, is not even being allowed to air.

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September 11, 2012

Family Law / LGBT News / Rich Vaughn Article / Same Sex Marriage

House Dems Go to Bat for DOMA

The Windsor case highlights one of the most onerous consequences of DOMA, which is the financial penalty same-sex couples incur via estate taxes and loss of Social Security benefits when one partner dies.

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September 8, 2012

Family Law / IFLG / Rich Vaughn Article / Surrogacy Latest News

California Acts to Protect Surrogates, Families

An assisted reproduction agreement for gestational carriers (surrogates), containing required information and legally notarized, would have to be executed prior to embryo transplantation or administration of medications used in assisted reproduction; in other words, it would be illegal to execute a surrogacy agreement with the intended parents after the surrogacy was already pregnant, as has occurred in a recent court case.

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September 5, 2012

LGBT News / Rich Vaughn Article / Same Sex Parents / Surrogacy Latest News

Gay Couple Legally Recognized as Fathers on Birth Certificate for Surrogate Born Son

For the first time in history, Argentina recognized a gay couple as legal parents of a child born from surrogacy. On June 29, 2012, baby Tobias was born in New…

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August 24, 2012

Assisted Reproductive Technology / Biological Time Clock / Family Law / IFLG / In Vitro Fertilization / Rich Vaughn Article

What’s Age Got to do With it? Your Eggs or Alternatives

Assisted reproductive technology methods offer hope to mature couples looking to build a family later in life, when conception may otherwise be a challenge.

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August 4, 2012

IFLG / In Vitro Fertilization / Rich Vaughn Article

Lesley Brown: a Pioneer in IVF

The death of Lesley Brown, the first mother to conceive using in vitro fertilization and deliver a healthy baby—a girl, Louise--sparked a number of retrospectives on the birth of IVF.

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July 11, 2012

Assisted Reproductive Technology / IFLG / In Vitro Fertilization / LGBT News / Rich Vaughn Article

Controversial Costa Rica lawmaker appointed, sparks demonstrations

Demonstrators advocated a wide variety of issues including LGBT rights, legalizing in vitro fertilization and migrant-worker benefits.

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July 5, 2012

Assisted Reproductive Technology / Domestic Partnership / Egg Donation Information / Family Law / IFLG / In Vitro Fertilization / Intended Parents / LGBT News / Rich Vaughn Article / Same Sex Marriage / Same Sex Parents / Surrogacy Latest News

Surrogacy to Help Gay Men Become Parents

The number of gay couples forming families is on a steady rise from previous years. Gay and lesbian couples around the world are finding new hope creating families using ART methods.

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July 2, 2012

Assisted Reproductive Technology / Egg Donation Information / Family Law / IFLG / In Vitro Fertilization / Rich Vaughn Article / Surrogacy Latest News

Have you thought about sharing your child’s birth story?

How will you share your child’s birth story? The American Fertility Association has some suggestions on speaking with your egg donor child

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June 30, 2012

IFLG / Rich Vaughn Article

You never know where inspiration will come from…

Indian actor Ranbir Kapoor, has learned of the importance of sperm donation through film.

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June 29, 2012

Adoption / Assisted Reproductive Technology / Family Law / IFLG / In Vitro Fertilization / LGBT News / Rich Vaughn Article

Egg Donation and IVF Help Form Modern Families

An estimated 6 million to 14 million children have a lesbian or gay parent. Egg donation, surrogacy and IVF play a major role in forming these modern families who may not have had the opportunity to have children otherwise.

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June 7, 2012

Assisted Reproductive Technology / Egg Donation Information / IFLG / In Vitro Fertilization / Rich Vaughn Article / Surrogacy Latest News

Egg Donation: A major role in treating infertility

Egg donation helps conceive a child who is genetically linked both to the donor and the recipient parents (assuming the recipients contribute sperm for the IVF cycle).

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May 30, 2012

Assisted Reproductive Technology / Family Law / IFLG / In Vitro Fertilization / Rich Vaughn Article

Capato Ruling Is Bad News/Good News

In Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security vs Capato, on Behalf of B. N. C. et al., the Court reversed the decision of the Third U.S. District Court and ruled that Karen Capato is not entitled to receive Social Security benefits for her twins, who were conceived after her husband’s death.

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May 22, 2012

Assisted Reproductive Technology / Family Law / IFLG / Intended Parents / Rich Vaughn Article / Surrogacy Latest News

Surrogacy: A delicate yet rewarding process

Surrogacy laws vary from state to state. Some states offer no legal standing for surrogacy agreements and only grant court orders on a per-case basis, which leaves would-be parents and surrogates in precarious positions.

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May 16, 2012

Assisted Reproductive Technology / IFLG / In Vitro Fertilization / Intended Parents / Rich Vaughn Article / Surrogacy Latest News

The surrogacy walk: heartbreak, suspense, and family

“Infertility is a disease that affects about 6 million American couples, roughly 10 percent of the reproductive age population.”

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May 16, 2012

Adoption / Assisted Reproductive Technology / Family Law / IFLG / In Vitro Fertilization / Intended Parents / Rich Vaughn Article

IVF or Adoption?

Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) has been used in the U.S. for over 30 years as a means for couples with fertility struggles to start a family. ART includes a variety of fertility treatments, such as in vitro fertilization (IVF).

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April 27, 2012

Adoption / Assisted Reproductive Technology / In Vitro Fertilization / Rich Vaughn Article / Surrogacy Latest News / Uncategorized

CSI segment highlights why it’s important to carefully vet your IVF agency

More recently, the popular television series, CSI featured an episode about a physician who fertilized a woman’s eggs with his own sperm without her knowledge and successfully implanted one of the resulting embryos.

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April 24, 2012

Assisted Reproductive Technology / Domestic Partnership / Family Law / IFLG / In Vitro Fertilization / Intended Parents / LGBT News / Rich Vaughn Article / Same Sex Parents / Surrogacy Latest News

Parental Rights for Unrelated Spouses

Legislation under consideration by the New Jersey state legislature, as a result of a recent state Supreme Court case, would help establish parental rights for infertile men or women who become parents via surrogacy.

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April 2, 2012

Assisted Reproductive Technology / Family Law / In Vitro Fertilization / Parentage Orders / Rich Vaughn Article

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 freeze gametes and embryos and thaw them later for future use

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March 23, 2012

IFLG / In Vitro Fertilization / Rich Vaughn Article

From the News: UCI settles a dozen fertility suits

The UC Board of Regents has quietly settled a dozen lawsuits stemming from fertility fraud uncovered nearly 15 years ago -- drawing closer to an end a scandal that has dogged UC Irvine and left behind dozens of heartbroken couples.

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September 11, 2009