Happy Halloween 2012
Rich Vaughn and Tommy Woelfel attended the Halloween Parade 2012 at their sons' preschool.
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October 31, 2012
American Bar Association / Assisted Reproductive Technology / Family Law / IFLG / Rich Vaughn Article / Uncategorized
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
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
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
‘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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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