Assisted Reproduction and Surrogacy

Assisted Reproduction

The Bay Area Family Law Center is here to help you with your journey through assisted reproduction, including Surrogacy Center Agreements, Agreements Between Intended Parents (IPs) and Surrogates, Egg Donor Agreements, Sperm Donor Agreements, Embryo Donor Agreements, and Parentage Actions in the Context of Surrogacy.

Starting in 2019, our office has been providing assisted reproduction services. We offer 20 minute free consultations for those seeking legal assistance with assisted reproduction, including Surrogacy Center Agreements, Agreements Between Intended Parents (Ips) and Surrogates, Egg Donor Agreements, Sperm Donor Agreements, and Embryo Donor Agreements.

Surrogacy Center Agreements

The journey through surrogacy can at times be long, costly, and complicated. Here at the Bay Area Family Law Center, we assist intended Parents (Ips), looking to sign with a surrogacy center, with review and or drafting of the legal agreement between the surrogacy center and your family. During this process, we can assist your family in negotiating the surrogacy center terms and provisions to ensure that your surrogacy center does more than just matching you with a surrogate and collect a hefty paycheck for this sole service. We strive to ensure that the surrogacy contracts ensure that surrogates are vetted appropriately and that the centers help coordinate your journey from matching you with a surrogate meeting your needs through the birth of your newborn.

Agreements Between Intended parents (IPs) and Surrogates

Once you have found your surrogate, our attorneys are happy to take the reins in helping to formulate your ideal surrogacy agreement. Our Surrogacy Agreements will include terms which:

• Establish you as the rightful legal guardian of your newborn.
• Set forth the terms and conditions of your surrogate’s compensation.
• Addresses issues of health insurance and the variety of insurance policies applicable to surrogacy.
• Set forth whether you do a single embryo transfer or a double embro transfer.
• Establish your desires for your surrogate during pregnancy, from diet and exercise to whether your surrogate plays your baby lullabies.
• Discusses the “what can go wrong” parts of surrogacy and addresses your desires for various difficult situations.
• Addresses your desires for the date of your newborn’s birth.

No two Surrogate Agreements are ever the same. At Bay Area Family Law Center, we strive to ensure that your agreement gives you peace of mind to meet your family planning goals and desires.

Egg Donor Agreements

We provide services for egg donors and for intended parents in drafting and reviewing egg donor agreements. Our egg donor agreements ensure that when your family receives donated-eggs that you have an air-tight contract, ensuring that only you have parentage rights to your future newborn. We also review egg donor agreements for those seeking to donate eggs, ensuring that egg donors do not need to worry about the rights and obligations of being a parent when eggs are donated. As we draft egg donor agreements, we ensure that your family planning meets with your family’s needs and that your contractual terms are exactly what you are expect as you take this step forward in your journey to parenthood.

Sperm Donor Agreements & Consults

We provide services for sperm donors and for intended parents in drafting and reviewing sperm donor agreements. Our sperm donor agreements ensure that, when your family receives donated-sperm, that you have an a thorough and complete contract, which ensures that only you have parentage rights to your future newborn. We also review sperm donor agreements for those seeking to donate sperm to make sure that you, as a sperm donor, do not need to worry about the rights and obligations of being a parent when sperm are donated. As we draft sperm donor agreements, we ensure that your family planning meets with your family’s needs and that your contract is exactly what you are expect as you take this step forward in your journey to parenthood.

Embryo Donation

Bay Area Family Law Center drafts and reviews Embryo Donation Agreements for those seeking to receive embryos as part of their family planning as well as for those seeking to donate embryos. Our attorneys ensure that your embryo donation contract ensures that parentage rights are clearly defined. We ensure that only the intended parents shall have rights to the newborn, while ensuring that the embryo donor(s) do not become parents unintentionally. At the end of surrogacy, Intended Parents often have remaining embryos which can be donated to other families, to scientific research, or discarded. If it is your desire to donate your embryos or to receive donated embryos, are attorneys are here to help.

Parentage Actions and Prebirth Orders

As you prepare to welcome your newborn into your life, most families desire to ensure that the Intended Parents are listed on the birth certificate from the outset of life. In California, Prebirth Orders are permitted as a part of a Parentage Action, allowing you to ensure that your child’s birth certificate certifies you (including your spouse) as the parent(s) of your newborn. In all California cases, we are happy to help you with your Parentage Action to ensure that you are the legal guardian of your child.

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