Ohio Lawyers Serving Parents And Surrogates Worldwide
If you are going to be part of the surrogacy team, an experienced advocate can protect your rights throughout the entire process. From our Ohio office, our team at Essig & Evans LLP represents intended parents, surrogates, facilitators, reproductive endocrinologists and others involved in the surrogacy process throughout the country and internationally as well.
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Advocating For You And Your Family
Focused on surrogacy law for clients throughout the United States and abroad, we help our clients build their families by managing the legal aspects of the traditional or gestational surrogacy process on their behalf. Rather than providing matching services, our lawyers work with clients by facilitating the legal processes between intended parent and surrogate. Our firm handles the drafting and reviewing of surrogacy contracts, as well as securing birth orders where families are being built by assisted reproductive technologies.
Your family faces challenges, and we know that there are a number of options available to you. That is why we work hard to help you be sure that this method of family building will successfully work for you. If you have chosen to build your family through assisted reproductive technology, we can help you find a solution that suits your unique situation.
Surrogacy Referrals
In addition to our background in fertility law and working directly with clients involved with all stages of the surrogacy process, our firm accepts referrals from a variety of groups, including:
- Attorneys: Our firm works with attorneys in all states when they have legal concerns involving surrogates or intended parents in Ohio or a surrounding state. Since surrogacy is illegal or difficult in some surrounding states, many surrogates residing in states neighboring Ohio choose to deliver here where we are surrogacy-friendly.
- Agencies/Facilitators: There are many facilitators and agencies around the country that match intended parents with surrogates. Our lawyers help clients of the facilitators and agencies with their legal concerns once they have accomplished a successful match.
- Physician groups: We represent physician groups that are responsible for the assisted reproductive procedures. They often need answers to questions that arise in the context of their office policies as well as patient management.
- Independent surrogates and parents: If you have identified a surrogate or intended parent anywhere in the United States, we can help you define the surrogacy arrangement and protect your parental rights, responsibilities and interests. If you want to avoid the matching fees of a facilitator or agency, it is even more important to take steps to protect your rights before moving forward.
Representing all domestic and international parties involved in the surrogacy process, we can help you with all of your surrogacy concerns. We have helped clients secure their interests and successfully navigate the surrogacy process.
We understand that every family is different. Our firm represents traditional families, single parents and same-sex couples alike.
From our Cincinnati law office, we are ready to answer your questions about collaborative reproduction and the surrogacy process, and help you find out what you need to do to protect your rights.