An Essential Guide To Managing and Growing your Family in the Modern World
In this guide you will learn:
- The surrogacy process;
- How intended parents become legal parents to their child born from surrogacy;
- Whether surrogacy contracts are enforceable;
- The law around payments to surrogates;
- How surrogacy law is changing;
- Circumstances where donors of gametes can be identified and identify the children born from their donation;
- Whether donors have any rights or obligations to the donor-conceived child;
- Who can adopt a child;
- What are the conditions and considerations for the Court to make an adoption order; and
- How we assist transgender and non-binary individuals and their families.
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