Surrogacy

Many Minnesota couples face obstacles when trying to have children and turn to surrogates. For some, other types of assisted reproductive technology, such as in vitro fertilization (IVF) (fertilization of an egg outside the womb using their own sperm and egg), are not...

Your lifelong friend or a beloved family member has struggled to get pregnant. Or maybe you’re close to a gay friend or couple that wants to start a family. The bottom line is that you want to help by offering to become their surrogate, but you’re unsure how to...

Growing your family through surrogacy can be a long and complicated process. Minnesota, along with many other states, has no surrogacy laws. But when the process proceeds correctly, courts are generally favorable toward intended parents and surrogates. Despite the...

Few things are as devastating as discovering you and your partner cannot have a child through traditional pregnancy. But surrogacy presents an attractive option for many people by growing their family through assisted reproductive technology (ART). Like traditional...

Compassion is a core quality in most women who help families with fertility challenges by becoming a surrogate. But there are two kinds of surrogacy — compensated and altruistic. Unlike many other nations, the United States allows surrogates to receive reasonable...

A gestational carrier is a woman into whose womb is transferred an embryo created with gametes (sperm or egg) other than her own that are selected by aspiring and intended legal parents who cannot gestate a child themselves.  It may be both gametes of a heterosexual...

One thing that people worry about when they decide to use a surrogate is that the surrogate may want to keep the baby after the child is born. They don’t want there to be any legal drama at such an important time, and they certainly do not want to see their plans to...

Surrogacy has become a common practice in recent years as more people feel morally and legally comfortable with the process. Many heterosexual couples in Minnesota struggling to have a baby as well as same-sex couples desiring to become parents have found that...

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected so many different aspects in people’s lives. One of the more unique aspects deals with surrogacy matters. Surrogacy is experiencing a nationwide challenge due to the COVID-19 travel ban that has closed U.S. borders to a vast majority...

By January 1, 2019 there will only be three states that have published statutes or case law that prohibit compensated surrogacy contracts - those states being Louisiana, Michigan and New York. With the State of Washington amending its Uniform Parentage Act to...