New York IVF Lawyer

When you connect with an experienced New York, NY IVF lawyer, you want to speak to someone who understands your family building goals and can provide you with compassionate legal guidance and insight.  Oleaga Law LLC focuses on family formation law, including assisted reproduction and parentage matters, and collaborates closely with New York IVF clinics. You’ll receive clear answers, practical checklists, and documents created to reflect your family building plans and pathway to parenthood.

​IVF Lawyer New York, NY

In vitro fertilization involves more than medicine; it requires legal considerations that reflect consent, clarify ownership and dispositional control, and document how embryos, eggs, or sperm may be used now and in the future.  For partners pursuing parenthood through IVF, an embryo disposition agreement should be considered.  Designations provided by you and your partner on your IVF Clinic consent forms may not be binding, and may have unintended consequences. See Why Do IVF Clinic Forms Matter?

Couples and individuals pursuing family building with the assistance of third parties, including egg donors, sperm donors, embryo donors, and/or gestational surrogates, will require legal agreements that outline the rights and responsibilities of all parties and judgments of parentage to secure the intended parents’ legal relationship to their child(ren).  Our role is to draft agreements that reflect your specific intentions and goals, and guide you on your path to becoming parents.

​Our assisted reproduction lawyer starts with your family-building goals, keeping your schedule and privacy at the forefront. Together, we work towards planning you path to legal parenthood, and then drafting the agreements and documents that put your family building plan into action and protect your family-building interests and your genetic material.  As a New York IVF lawyer, we review your IVF clinic forms and anticipated timeline, and ensure your documents and consents are put in place before any medical procedures.

If you require the assistance of a gamete donor, we work with you to select an agency or cryobank, and ensure your donor gametes are FDA compliant and ready for use in assisted reproduction for your family building.  Our fertility law lawyers draft contracts for all types of gamete donations: closed, semi-open, and directed.  These agreements should outline the rights and responsibilities of each party, define access to non-identifying medical information, allocate payment of expenses including uncovered medical costs, travel, lost wages, anymore, and most importantly, clearly identify who is an intended parent and who is a donor.  For partners using their own gametes to form embryos, we suggest embryo disposition agreements or prenuptial agreements with designations to address cryopreserved embryos to avoid uncertainty for your future reproductive options and family-building plans.  Whether or not it is advisable for you to secure your legal parentage to your child born through assisted reproduction through a judgment of parentage or other parentage order will depend on the facts and circumstances of your family-building.  Due to differences in state laws, it’s imperative you speak with a family formation attorney in your jurisdiction to discuss how to best protect your family.

​Why Experience Matters In IVF Matters

Experience brings order to time-sensitive decisions and reduces the risk of last-minute surprises. Our legal team has:

• ​Concentrated practice in assisted reproduction including sperm/egg donation arrangements, embryo donations, and gestational surrogacy arrangements.
• Experience filing judgments of parentage and confirmatory adoptions in New York, Maine, Connecticut, and New Hampshire.
• Close collaboration with New York IVF programs and storage facilities.
• Predictable timelines, practical checklists, and responsive communication throughout.

​“There aren’t enough stars available to give Janene. In our first foray into the world of surrogacy, Janene was a professional, knowledgeable, comforting and caring legal guide. She is quick to respond and always answered our questions thoroughly. Janene’s determination to make sure my wife was protected physically, emotionally and legally was unwavering. In addition to her legal advice, Janene provided genuine encouragement throughout the process. We feel lucky to have found Janene and can’t recommend her enough!”

– Greg M.

​Build your family with compassionate and well-informed legal guidance. If you have questions about the specifics of your family building journey, reach out to Oleaga Law LLC and book a free initial consultation.