ASSISTED REPRODUCTION (ART)
A Practice Devoted to Building Families. In today’s world, family building is occurring not just through adoption, but through assisted reproductive technologies including the use of egg and sperm donors, donated embryos and gestational carriers or surrogates. Whether you are considering becoming a donor or surrogate or you are a prospective intended parent, knowledge is power.
Over the past 15 years, Patricia M. Hoban has focused her practice on Surrogacy & Adoption Law and has helped intended parents and surrogates navigate surrogacy from start to finish. Attorney Patricia M. Hoban is committed to providing each client with affordable, quality legal representation with the utmost compassion.
REPRODUCTIVE LAW & FAMILY FORMATION
Whether you are considering becoming a donor or surrogate or you are a prospective intended parent, knowledge is power and will help you face the wonderful but legally and emotionally complicated world of assisted reproduction.
Intended parent(s) will be represented by an attorney, and surrogate and spouse/partner will have a different attorney. The attorney’s will draft / negotiate the agreement between the intended parents and the carrier and will prepare the necessary pleadings to obtain a pre-birth or post-birth order to establish legal parentage of a child born through surrogacy.
Services
- Gestational Carrier Agreements
- Egg Donation Agreements
- Sperm Donation Agreements
- Embryo Donation Agreements
- Establish parental rights for intended parents – Pre and Post Birth Parentage Orders
- Adoption (second parent, step-parent, kinship)