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YOUR ROADMAP TO MODERN FAMILY LAW

YOUR ROADMAP TO MODERN FAMILY LAW

An Essential Guide To Managing and Growing your Family in the Modern World

In this guide you will learn:

  • The surrogacy process;
  • How intended parents become legal parents to their child born from surrogacy;
  • Whether surrogacy contracts are enforceable;
  • The law around payments to surrogates;
  • How surrogacy law is changing;
  • Circumstances where donors of gametes can be identified and identify the children born from their donation;
  • Whether donors have any rights or obligations to the donor-conceived child;
  • Who can adopt a child;
  • What are the conditions and considerations for the Court to make an adoption order; and
  • How we assist transgender and non-binary individuals and their families.

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