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A self-assessment for women considering gestational surrogacy.  Becoming a gestational surrogate is a generous and meaningful decision—but it’s also a significant commitment. This checklist is designed to help you reflect on whether you’re ready to take the next step and where you may want additional support or information.  Physical & Medical Readiness  ☐ I have […]

Becoming a gestational surrogate is a generous and life-changing decision.  Experienced surrogates share stories about their surrogacy journeys being fulfilling experiences for themselves and their families.  For many new surrogates, the hardest part is knowing where to begin. If you’re researching how to become a gestational surrogate, wondering what to look for in a surrogacy […]

For many couples and individuals around the world, gestational surrogacy in the United States continues to be a compelling path to parenthood offering legal security and high-quality medical care.  But pursuing surrogacy across borders also brings unique legal, financial, and logistical challenges. Here’s what international intended parents need to know in 2026 before beginning their […]

The intersection of assisted reproductive technology (ART) and family law becomes most pronounced when couples divorce after creating embryos through IVF.  Disputes regarding the ownership and dispositional control of embryos raise complex questions under contract law, reproductive law, property law, and evolving statutory frameworks. In New York, courts have developed a structured approach to these […]

In vitro fertilization (IVF) is a well-established medical treatment that has helped millions of individuals and couples build their families.  It begins with eggs being retrieved from the ovaries from an intended parent or an egg donor and then fertilized with sperm in a laboratory dish.  The fertilized eggs that develop into viable embryos are […]

Most fertility patients see the stack of IVF Clinic consent and disposition forms as just another hurdle standing between them and their long-awaited baby.  These forms are often completed quickly with hurried checkmarks and little reflection on questions such as “who will control the embryos in the event of divorce?”  Instead, fertility patients are far […]

For years, compensated surrogacy was illegal in New York. That changed in February 2021 when the Child Parent Security Act took effect. Before this legislation, families who wanted to pursue paid surrogacy arrangements had no legal protection in the state. Many were forced to look elsewhere. The law didn’t just change the rules. It opened […]

A pre-birth order is a court judgment declaring your legal parentage issued before your baby arrives. It establishes you and your partner as the legal parents of your child, not your surrogate who will carry and birth your child, and not any donors who may have provided gametes to assist you in building your family.  […]

2025 marked a pivotal period for reproductive rights and access to fertility care, defined by legislative changes, heightened political attention, and growing public engagement in the United States and beyond. From landmark surrogacy and parentage reforms to renewed debates about personhood and insurance coverage for fertility treatment, developments throughout the globe continue to reshape the […]

The “Matter of Baby D.K.N.” case has set a new precedent for families built through assisted reproduction in New York and beyond. Decided in September of 2025 by Judge Caroline Piela Cohen of the Supreme Court of Kings County, NY, this case of first impression follows three parents that conceived a child through assisted reproductive […]