Gestational Agreements and Assisted Reproductive Technology

In 2003, the Texas legislature enacted laws governing surrogacy, also known as gestational arrangements. Gestational arrangements and agreements, along with egg donor agreements, fall within the purview of Assisted Reproductive Technology law (ART). There are now Texas legal guidelines on what gestational agreements should contain to be valid so that a Texas court can recognize and ratify them to ensure that the intended parents are also the legal parents of the child, regardless of biology, and to get the intended parents’ names on the child’s birth certificate. Texas has had egg donor (and sperm donor) laws on the books for many years.

Adoption and Assisted Reproductive Technology can involve very complex processes that we take very seriously at Calabrese Huff. Although serious matters, it is an absolute joy for us to be able to assist couples with creating their families. Carla has been committed to adoptions and ART since she opened the firm in 1991. She is a member of the American Academy of Assisted Reproductive Technology Attorneys (AAARTA), which is a subsidiary of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys (AAAA), of which she is also a member. Please contact any of us if you need assistance with any adoption or ART-related matter.