Surrogate Parenting Contracts

What is Surrogate Parenting Contracts?

Surrogate parenting is an arrangement in which one or more persons, typically a married infertile couple (the intended rearing parents), contract with a woman to gestate a child for them and then to relinquish it to them after birth. Complications do arise, especially when the surrogate decides later that she wants to exert contact with the child.

Further Reading

For more detailed information, see our related Family Law terms:

• Divided Custody
• Custody Decree
• Irreconcilable Differences
• Surrogate Mother
• Voluntary Termination of Parental Rights

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