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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

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy just signed a law legalizing gestational carrier agreements, effectively lifting a 30-year ban on surrogacy in the state. Passage of S482, the “New Jersey Gestational Carrier Agreement [...]

This week, April 22 through 28, is National Infertility Awareness Week (https://infertilityawareness.org/). Established by RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association in 1989, the week is a collaborative effort of [...]

Arizona legislators just passed, and GOP Governor Doug Ducey signed into law, SB 1397, an onerous new law with potentially disastrous impacts on the lives of intended parents; on the fields of family, divorce and ART law; and [...]

­­Congratulations to Washington State, which just became the first state to enact UPA 2017, the updated Uniform Parentage Act for use by U.S. states as uniform legislation for parentage laws, including the parentage of [...]