Assisted reproduction is a relatively new concept, governed by cutting edge technology and law. Protect your family’s future with contractual agreements that define donors’ and recipients’ roles in the upbringing of your child. The attorneys at AARKS will customize each agreement to your family’s specific needs.
AARKS is pleased to provide the following services at flat rates for our clients:
Sperm Donor Contracts
A proper sperm donor agreement ensures two-directional protection for the parties involved. It relinquishes the parental rights of a known sperm donor, thereby releasing the donor from any liability relating to the child and also protects the donor from later claims for child support. Significantly, it also limits or establishes the expected boundaries between the sperm donor and the parents raising the child. In order to be enforceable, a sperm donor agreement must satisfy several statutory requirements.
Egg Donor Contracts
As reproduction using egg donation gains popularity, it is essential that the parties involved in the procedure protect themselves from future legal complications. An egg donor agreement outlines the rights and responsibilities of the parties, addresses how the parties will handle a variety of issues and relinquishes the donor’s parental rights, thereby releasing her from any liability and rights relating to the child. In order to be enforceable, an egg donor agreement must satisfy several statutory requirements.
Embryo Donor Contracts
Often involving four or more parties, an embryo donation is a legally complex procedure. An enforceable and properly executed embryo donation agreement foresees the rights and responsibilities of each party involved after the donation takes place and ensures that each person’s rights and role in the donation is outlined effectively.
Surrogacy Contracts
For a variety of reasons, many people have surrogates carry their children until birth. There are two types of surrogacy: traditional, during which a surrogate’s egg is fertilized with either the biological father’s or a donor’s sperm; and gestational surrogacy, where a surrogate is implanted with an embryo.
Both traditional and gestational surrogacy arrangements involve multiple parties with positions that do not always align. In order to protect all of the parties involved, and articulate the rights and responsibilities of the parties after the child’s birth, it is important to create an enforceable contract that addresses as many contingencies as possible.
