Legal issues surrogate mother: a comprehensive checklist to ensure that you have remembered (with help from your surrogacy attorney) to put all the important items in your surrogacy agreement.
Please note: This site is not intended to be legal council. No portion of the ideas and concepts represented on this website should be used as a substitute for a surrogacy attorney's advice. Make sure you consult your lawyer on all issues regarding surrogacy.
The surrogacy agreements phase can be very uncomfortable, and extremely personal. A surrogate mother and her intended parents will need to discuss legal issues surrogate mother with one another that perhaps they have only discussed with their spouse or significant other.
There will be disagreements. There will be compromise. This is often the most difficult part of a surrogate journey, and many journeys end on the contract negotiation table. (One of mine did.)
The following legal issues surrogate mother should be discussed between the intended parents and the surrogate.
As they apply to your situation, they should be included or excluded in surrogacy agreements.
This contract checklist is by no means suggesting that you include every single issue in your contract, but it is more of a list of topics to think about, and to have all parties discuss with their surrogacy attorney.
It is very important to consider the "what if's" of surrogacy, and to make sure that all parties are on the same page with legal issues surrogate mother. Not every issue will apply to every situation.
Insurance
Who will pay for the surrogate mother's health care insurance?
What will happen if the surrogate loses her health insurance?
Do the surrogate mother or intended parents feel it is important that their names and photos be withheld from people not directly involved in the surrogacy?
If you have any further questions about the contract checklist or the contract phase of surrogacy, please Ask a Surrogate.
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The following legal issues surrogate mother should be discussed between the intended parents and the surrogate. 
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