Legally Speaking Oct 08, 2021
Stories: All Eyes on the Supreme Court; USCIS Expands Definition of “in wedlock” for Children Born Abroad for US Citizenship; US Surrogacy Legislative Updates: Colorado and Wyoming enact new surrogacy laws; Update on the Uniform Parentage Act 2017; Israeli Supreme Court Strikes Down Surrogacy Ban for Gay Men as Discriminatory; France Expands ART Laws, Leaves Surrogacy Ban Unchanged
Legally Speaking May 13, 2021
As Legally Speaking went to press, Colorado passed HB21-1022 and the governor signed the bill into law on May 6, 2022. The law creates the "Colorado Surrogacy Agreement Act," which will provide significant legal protections and guidance to gestational surrogacy in that state. A detailed report of that law will appear in a future Legally Speaking column.
Legally Speaking Apr 12, 2021
Another lawsuit has been filed by a man claiming his sperm was used without his consent. The lawsuit, filed in federal district court in California against a sperm bank, is currently in what is called the “pleadings” stage, where after a “motion to dismiss” is filed, the facts are preliminarily accepted as true and the court’s task is to determine whether the alleged facts—if proven—state a legal cause of action so the case can proceed or not. In this case, the court upheld eight, and dismissed two, of the ten alleged legal theories.
Legally Speaking Feb 15, 2021
New York’s long-awaited Child Parent Security Act (CPSA), which allows compensated surrogacy, went into effect February 15, 2021. CPSA law addresses and regulates gestational surrogacy only, not traditional/genetic surrogacy, and expressly allows compensation for gestational surrogates along with multiple required protections.