INTENDED PARENTS
If you are considering building or growing your family through assisted reproduction be a well-informed intended parent. When you would like to grow or expand your family through surrogacy, the surrogacy process may feel like it has constantly moving parts. The law team at Patricia Hoban, LLC can draft or review the surrogacy agreement you will need to protect your rights and ensure that legal parentage of your child is established. Patricia can prepare the necessary pleadings to obtain a pre-birth or post-birth order for a child born through surrogacy.
Below is a broad outline of the Surrogacy process for intended parents:
- Have embryos created by using intended parents’ genetic material, donated embryos or donated sperm, eggs, or both;
- Match between carrier and intended parent(s);
- Background checks and psychological evaluations on all parties;
- Medical evaluation and clearance of the carrier;
- Determine how the carrier’s maternity expenses will be paid;Arrange for a review of the carrier’s insurance plan, if desired;
- Prepare and sign the surrogacy contract. Each party is represented by their own attorney and negotiate a contract which will address inter alia compensation, bed rest, life and disability insurance, post delivery visitation. Intended parents will pay the legal fees for the Surrogate’s attorney;
- Send legal clearance to fertility clinic/fertility center;
- Carrier to undergo medical treatment to prepare for transfer;
- Estate Planning;
- Coordinate with the hospital;
- Make sure the hospital is aware of the surrogacy;
- Provide the hospital with appropriate delegations of decision-making responsibility (e.g., power of attorney, court order, etc.);
- Participate in the legal process for parentage and Obtain parentage order;
- Obtain birth certificate with intended parents listed;
- Immediately enroll the child on the intended parents’ insurance plan;
- Intended Parents apply for a Social Security number for the child;
