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Parentage: What Parentage Orders Protect Beyond the Birth Certificate
For many intended parents, seeing their names on their child’s birth certificate feels like the final step in building their family. It is emotional. It is meaningful. It represents everything you worked toward. But in California fertility and surrogacy law, a birth...
Legal Timing in Family-Building: When to Start the Process
When building a family through adoption, surrogacy, IVF, or assisted reproduction, legal timing plays an important role, but it doesn’t have to feel rushed or overwhelming. Many people wait to contact a fertility attorney until medical treatment is scheduled or a...
5 Legal Steps to Support Your Family-Building Plans in 2026
As the new year begins, many individuals and families take stock of plans that are already in motion. For those considering family-building in 2026, this is often a moment for families to pause and ensure that the legal groundwork supporting those plans is clear,...
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What Happens If a Surrogacy Agreement Isn’t Finalized Before Embryo Transfer?
Timing matters more than most people realize. In a surrogacy arrangement, the legal process is not separate from the medical process. They are meant to move together. When an embryo transfer moves forward before a fully executed surrogacy agreement is in place, it can...
Financial Terms in Surrogacy Agreements: What Should Be Clearly Defined?
Surrogacy agreements are often approached with a focus on the emotional and medical journey ahead, but in practice, it’s the financial terms that tend to cause the most strain when they aren’t clearly defined from the start. A strong agreement doesn’t just outline...
Surrogacy and Assisted Reproduction (ART): What Happens When Intended Parents Live in Different States?
Assisted reproduction often involves people in different locations. Intended parents may live in different states from each other, from their surrogate, or from the fertility clinic handling IVF or other treatment. When surrogacy, egg donation, or other assisted...
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Independent and Modular Surrogacy Journeys: What to Know Before You Unbundle
More intended parents are asking a reasonable question: do I need a full-service agency for everything, or can I assemble my surrogacy journey from the pieces I actually need? Rising costs have made independent and modular...
Why the Supreme Court’s Birthright Citizenship Ruling Matters for Surrogacy
By Maya Shulman | Shulman Family Law GroupSurrogacy • Adoption • Third-Party Reproduction The immigration headlines missed a quieter story: the same principle holds up the legal foundation under thousands of surrogacy journeys. When a child is born through surrogacy...
Maya Shulman Introduces Family Formation and Adoption Law Course at UWLA
From Latvia to West Los Angeles, From Med School Student to Law School Professor UWLA Offers First-of-its-Kind Family Formation andAdoption Law Elective Class Growing up in Latvia, Maya Shulman wanted to be a cardiac surgeon. She initially pursued that ambition,...
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