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Challenges in international surrogacy arrangements

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Date:4 APR 2022
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Louisa Ghevaert
Founder of Louisa Ghevaert Associates

Louisa Ghevaert Founder of Louisa Ghevaert Associates

The recent international surrogacy law case of Re X Y and Z (Children: Parental Orders: Time Limit) [2022] EWHC198 (Fam) places a spotlight on the complex and multi-faceted legal issues that can arise when intended parents cross borders and enter into commercial surrogacy arrangements. In Re X the intended parents experienced difficulties with their three US surrogate born children’s legal parentage citizenship and residence when they encountered a different system of law in Denmark where they were living. They also had to navigate multiple complex legal issues whilst applying for parental orders in the English High Court to resolve their children’s legal parentage and legally secure their children’s care arrangements upon relocating to the UK.

Re X serves as a reminder that international surrogacy is not risk free and that the lack of international harmonisation of...

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