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Ireland legalized same-sex marriage the same year the United States did, via a Supreme Court ruling in 2015. But just as is true of the U.S., Ireland has struggled to update its laws to ensure LGBT individuals are treated [...]

Huffington Post recently published an article by guest writer Lora Liegel about her experience as a legally married lesbian mom compelled to undergo “second-parent” adoption of her son, Finn, in order to protect her [...]

Tens of thousands of LGBT Israelis and their allies took to the streets Sunday, protesting a new Israeli surrogacy law that denies gay men the right to become parents via surrogacy, even as it gives the green light to lesbian [...]

Under a new Arizona law, in divorce cases involving frozen embryos, courts are mandated to award custody of the embryos to the “spouse who intends to allow the in vitro human embryos to develop to birth”—even in the [...]

Gay Parents to Be, July 19, 2018, “Surrogacy Unpacked by Fertility Law Attorney”by Richard B. Vaughn

Family Law Quarterly Fall 2018: Of Parents and Nonparents, in Two Acts: The UPA and UNCVA, Vol. 2, No. 3 December 2019, “UPA (2017): An Improvement—Except Where Genetic Surrogacy Is Concerned,” by Richard B. Vaughn