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Creative Family Connections has a respected and experienced legal team, starting with our Founder, Diane Hinson, who is a Harvard Law School cum laude graduate. We have been practicing Assisted Reproductive Technology law for more than 20 years. We have obtained landmark court rulings for our clients. And we created the first and leading map that explains surrogacy laws throughout the US: The US Surrogacy Law Map™.  Our team of surrogacy lawyers are licensed in Maryland, the District of Columbia, Virginia, and Connecticut.

We represent clients in surrogacy and assisted reproduction legal matters that are separate from our surrogate matching program and journey support. Our non-match legal clients include intended parents, surrogates, and also egg, sperm, and embryo donors. Find out more about how we can assist you through our wide variety of assisted reproductive legal services:

Acuerdos de gestación subrogada Acuerdos de donación de óvulos Acuerdos de donación de esperma Procesos de filiación ante los tribunales
Acuerdos de donación de embriones Acuerdos de disposición de embriones Formulario de consentimiento e informe del sustituto de Virginia Procedimientos de domesticación ante los tribunales
Procedimientos judiciales de adopción por un segundo progenitor o padrastro o madrastra Acuerdo y formularios del centro de FIV - Revisión Acuerdo de agencia de donantes y formularios - Revisión

ACUERDOS DE GESTACIÓN SUBROGADA

Padres previstos

Our team of surrogacy attorneys will work with you to develop a customized surrogacy agreement, or surrogacy contract, that serves as the foundation for your surrogacy journey. We prepare your agreement after your surrogate completes medical and psychological screening. Your agreement will comply with the surrogacy laws of your gestational carrier’s state of residence and/or your state of residence (the “choice of law” is part of the legal analysis), and the agreement should clearly memorialize the parties’ intentions (i.e., to be a parent, to be a gestational surrogate, etc.). We also make sure you have a clear understanding of these rights and responsibilities. In addition, the agreement will cover privacy and protections for the surrogacy, a path to parenthood for the intended parents, and a mechanism for disputes resolution.  

Our dedicated team of surrogacy lawyers will explain each stage of the process. The surrogacy contract helps manage the parties’ expectations regarding embryo transfer, pregnancy, termination, birth, and post-birth.  

Es para nosotros un gran privilegio ayudarle a construir o ampliar su familia con un completo acuerdo legal de gestación subrogada. 

Sustitutos

As a surrogate, you have chosen to become a life-changing, incredible force for someone to start or expand their family! As you are an extremely important part of a surrogacy journey, it is critical that you receive competent, independent surrogacy legal advice from an attorney experienced in assisted reproductive technology (ART) before you enter into a surrogacy relationship. When we review your surrogacy contract with you, we make sure that the legal rights and responsibilities outlined in your agreement are clear, fair, and compliant with the applicable law and surrogacy legal strategy relevant to your case. We also want to make sure you understand what is in the agreement. For example, our surrogacy attorneys walk you through the entire agreement – It’s part of our due diligence and having a hands-on approach.

By ensuring that you have a comprehensive gestational carrier agreement at the outset, before you even start your IVF medications, we enable you (and your intended parent or parents) to focus less on the transactional parts of the arrangement and more on the exciting steps: celebrating the pregnancy and journey milestones!  

We also include a provision in your surrogacy contract that gives you the right to contact us for ongoing legal advice throughout your journey. (We include this provision whenever we represent intended parents too.) 

It is our greatest honor to provide you dedicated legal surrogacy support during your quest to help intended parents create a family through surrogacy. 

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ACUERDOS DE DONACIÓN DE ÓVULOS

Padres previstos

We will work with you to develop a customized egg donor agreement that serves as the foundation for the egg donation. Typically, we prepare your egg donor contract once your egg donor completes medical and psychological screening. Our assisted reproductive lawyers will customize your egg donor agreement to your preferences for anonymity, privacy, future contact, and compliance with applicable law surrounding egg donation.

With experienced ART legal counsel and a well-drafted and properly executed egg donor agreement, you are preventing any possible challenges that could arise later with respect to parentage. These problems can happen in any egg donor situation, but happen most often when the egg donor is an “identified” donor, like a family member or close friend. 

Es para nosotros un gran privilegio ofrecerle un apoyo jurídico compasivo para crear una familia mediante la donación de óvulos.

Donantes de óvulos

As an egg donor, you are vital to intended parents building their families through assisted reproduction! You are changing someone’s life in an amazing way. And you deserve competent, independent legal advice from an attorney experienced in Assisted Reproductive Technology before you donate eggs. When we review your donor agreement, we make sure that the legal rights and responsibilities outlined in your donor agreement are clear, fair, and compliant with the applicable law. We make sure the allocation of these rights and obligations is clear to you and to the intended parents. We ensure that following the egg retrieval, you have no continuing obligations to any future embryos or children created with your donated eggs. We make sure you and the intended parents are on the same page regarding how the intended parents will use the eggs, any future contact between you and the intended parents, and whether the intended parents will inform you of any pregnancies involving your donated eggs. We also make sure you will be compensated for your time and services, regardless of the retrieval’s outcome. 

It is our greatest privilege to provide you top-notch legal support during your journey to help intended parents create a family through egg donation. 

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ACUERDOS DE DONACIÓN DE ESPERMA

Padres previstos

Our team will work with you to develop a customized sperm donor agreement that serves as the foundation for the sperm donation. Typically, we prepare your agreement once your sperm donor completes medical and psychological screening. Our attorneys will guide you through the sperm donation process and customize your sperm donor agreement to your preferences for anonymity, privacy, future contact, and compliance with applicable gamete donation law.

Con un asesoramiento jurídico experimentado y un acuerdo de donación de esperma bien redactado y ejecutado, estarás previniendo cualquier posible problema que pueda surgir más adelante con respecto a la filiación.. Estos problemas pueden surgir en cualquier situación de donación de esperma, pero son más frecuentes cuando el donante es un donante "identificado", por ejemplo, un familiar o un amigo íntimo.

It is our greatest privilege to provide you compassionate legal support as you help create a family through sperm donation. 

Donantes de esperma

As a sperm donor, you are a key component for many intended parents in building their families through assisted reproduction. As you are extremely important to the sperm donation arrangement, it is also critical that you receive competent, independent legal advice from an attorney experienced in Assisted Reproductive Technology before you donate sperm. When we review your sperm donor agreement, we make sure that the legal rights and responsibilities outlined in your donor agreement are clear, fair, and compliant with the applicable law.  We will make sure the contract is crystal clear that it is the parents, not you, who has all the legal obligations (and rights) with respect to the embryos and children created from your sperm.  We ensure that following the sperm donation, you have no continuing obligations to any future embryos or children created with your donated sperm.

We look forward to providing you compassionate legal support during your quest to help intended parents create a family through sperm donation. 

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ACUERDOS DE DONACIÓN DE EMBRIONES

Are you someone with leftover embryos who wants to donate them to an intended parent? Or, perhaps you are the potential recipient of donor embryos? Embryo donation is the right option for some parents to create their family through assisted reproductive technology. It is is more economical than egg retrievals, for example. Particularly if the donation is identified (known), but whenever it is from an individual donor (versus an embryo donation program), it is critical to have an embryo donation agreement in place to specifically address the rights of the parties and any future implications of the embryo donation.

It is our greatest privilege to provide you with dedicated legal support during your quest either to donate embryos or build a family through embryo donation. 

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ACUERDOS DE DISPOSICIÓN DE EMBRIONES

Embryo Disposition Agreements can be critical when unmarried couples are pursuing a family through Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART). This is true regardless of your sexual orientation. Typically, during ART, more embryos (and sometimes eggs) are created than are used, and these extra eggs and embryos are frozen and stored, initially at an IVF Center. The IVF Center requires intended parents to execute consent forms that delineate who owns the embryos. Essentially, the consent form requires the couple to create, in advance, an embryo disposition agreement to provide guidance so that the IVF Center is not caught in the middle should the couple later disagree. 

En el caso de las parejas del mismo sexo, estos formularios de consentimiento no siempre ofrecen todas las opciones posibles, por ejemplo, si los embriones se crearon con esperma de dos padres. Podemos ayudarle colaborando con el Centro de FIV para que sus formularios de consentimiento sean más completos e incluyan su experiencia particular.

We look forward to providing you legal support to create or review an embryo disposition agreement. 

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OBTENER UNA ORDEN JUDICIAL DE FILIACIÓN

Padres previstos 

Once a pregnancy is achieved, our attorneys can assist you with the court proceedings necessary to recognize you as the child’s sole legal parents and terminate any legal rights the surrogate may have as the person who will deliver the child. Our attorneys are licensed and obtain pre and post-birth parentage orders in Maryland, Washington DC, and Virginia. 

Es nuestro mayor privilegio ayudarle a garantizar sus derechos como únicos padres legales del niño. 

Sustitutos

Once a surrogate is pregnant, our attorneys can assist you with a necessary review of the court proceedings to establish the intended parents’ legal parentage obligations and rights and to help terminate any legal obligations (or rights) you may have after delivering the child through a surrogacy journey. Our team of surrogacy attorneys are licensed in Maryland, Washington DC, Virginia, and Connecticut. 

Es nuestro mayor privilegio brindarle apoyo compasivo en la revisión de los alegatos del tribunal de filiación.  

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DOMICILIO (DC y VA)

Sometimes, your legal strategy will include obtaining a pre-birth parentage order in a state outside the DC Metro area (e.g., based on the residence of the intended parents), and then having Maryland, the District of Columbia, or Virginia recognize the order if your surrogate is delivering there. In Maryland, Vital Records honors the out-of-state parentage order without the need for additional court action. In DC and Virginia, CFC surrogacy attorneys can take the out-of-state pre-birth court order and obtain a domestication order by a local court. The domestication order takes judicial formal recognition of the out-of-state order under the “Full Faith and Credit” clause of the Constitution and, in turn, directs the local vital records to honor the pre-birth order and issue a birth certificate naming only the intended parents as the child’s legal parents upon birth. This allows the intended parents the peace of mind of knowing DC and Virginia, much like Maryland, will enforce a pre-birth court order from another state. 

Es nuestro mayor privilegio proporcionarle apoyo compasivo en la obtención de órdenes de filiación y certificados de nacimiento a través de la domesticación en DC y Virginia.

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FORMULARIO DE CONSENTIMIENTO E INFORME DEL SUSTITUTO (VIRGINIA)

If a surrogate gives birth in Virginia, the VA Surrogate Consent and Report Form is one of the steps necessary to obtain the child’s birth certificate. This is not a legal process, but rather an administrative one that secures the birth certificate under Virginia’s Status of Children of Assisted Conception statute. It must be signed and notarized by all parties no sooner than the fourth day after the child’s birth. 

Es nuestro mayor privilegio proporcionarle apoyo legal compasivo durante su búsqueda para obtener un certificado de nacimiento de conformidad con el estatuto de los niños de concepción asistida. 

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PROCEDIMIENTOS JUDICIALES DE ADOPCIÓN POR PADRASTRO O MADRASTRA Y POR UN SEGUNDO PROGENITOR (MD, DC, VA)

Una orden de filiación es una sentencia judicial firme que debería gozar de plena fe y crédito en todos los Estados de EE.UU.. Sin embargo, la realidad es que esto no siempre es así. En muchos estados, una orden de filiación no recibe la deferencia que se le debe, especialmente si entra en conflicto con la política del segundo estado. En consecuencia, el planteamiento legal más prudente -para proteger los derechos legales del progenitor no genético y los del niño- es añadir un paso legal adicional después de que nazca el bebé: una adopción por padrastro o madrastra.

Una adopción por padrastro o madrastra (una forma abreviada y simplificada de adopción para parejas casadas) o una adopción por un segundo progenitor (para parejas no casadas) suele realizarse en el estado en el que residen los futuros padres. La adopción por padrastro o madrastra o por un segundo progenitor da lugar a una orden judicial que recibe plena fe y crédito en todos los estados de EE.UU.. Por tanto, a través de una adopción por padrastro o madrastra, el progenitor no genético recibe los mismos derechos legales que el progenitor genético. Además, los derechos del niño (por ejemplo, herencia, etc.) están protegidos aunque le ocurra algo al progenitor genético. Esto se debe a que las órdenes de adopción se respetan en todos los estados.

LGBTQ+ Parents

A la luz de la sentencia del Tribunal Supremo de 2022 Dobbs y, en particular, la opinión concurrente del juez Thomas -solicitando al Tribunal (y a sus partidarios) que presenten casos ante el Tribunal que permitan a éste reexaminar Obergefell bajo el precedente establecido en Dobbs (es decir, reexaminar si existe un derecho constitucional al matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo), hemos estado recomendando encarecidamente una adopción por padrastro o madrastra por parte del progenitor no genético, incluso cuando los padres previstos están casados. Esta era nuestra recomendación antes de Oberfegell y es con pesar, pero con los ojos totalmente abiertos, que ahora reanudamos este consejo, para proteger a todos nuestros padres LGBTQ + y sus hijos. Consideramos que la Ley de Respeto al Matrimonio es un paso positivo para proteger los derechos del matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo. Esa Ley, sin embargo, no prevalece sobre las leyes estatales, y unos 35 estados tienen estatutos o disposiciones constitucionales que prohíben los matrimonios del mismo sexo. Por lo tanto, si se anula Obergefell, el matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo volvería a estar en peligro en esos estados.

Es nuestro mayor privilegio ayudarle a obtener una adopción de padrastro o de segundo padre para proteger tanto sus derechos legales como los de sus hijos, sin preocuparse de si el Tribunal intenta socavar derechos adicionales. 

Podemos ayudar a los padres que viven en Maryland, DC, y Virginia en la obtención de adopciones de padrastro y segundo padre. Si usted vive en otros estados, estaremos encantados de referirle a un abogado capaz en ese estado.

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ACUERDO Y FORMULARIOS DEL CENTRO DE FIV - REVISIÓN

A menudo, los futuros padres desean un segundo par de ojos en los formularios que se les pide que ejecuten con el Centro de FIV antes del compromiso formal. Nuestros abogados pueden proporcionarle una revisión competente, compasiva e informada de cualquier acuerdo o formulario de compromiso que se le pida que firme. 

Es nuestro mayor privilegio proporcionarle una revisión legal compasiva de cualquier acuerdo de servicios con su Centro de FIV. 

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ACUERDO CON LA AGENCIA DONANTE Y FORMULARIOS - REVISIÓN

Muchos futuros padres seleccionan a sus donantes a través de una agencia. Nuestros abogados pueden proporcionarle una revisión competente, compasiva e informada de los acuerdos o formularios de compromiso que necesita ejecutar con una agencia de donantes de óvulos antes del compromiso formal. 

Es para nosotros un gran privilegio proporcionarle una revisión legal compasiva de cualquier acuerdo de servicios con su agencia donante. 

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