Each state and country has specific laws and regulations for LGBTQIA+ IPs. Our legal staff is experienced in the legal rights of the LGBTQIA+ community and stay educated as the laws change. Circle was founded by a lawyer and gay dad through surrogacy. Experience working with LGBTQ+ individuals. Whether you obtain a second-parent adoption, judgment of paternity/maternity or custody orders, we're here to help you become a parent and find solutions that protect your family.Ģ. Circle Surrogacy's accomplished legal team helps confirm that your parental rights are affirmed and safeguarded. Here are 3 things you should look for in an agency as a parent-to-be:ġ. Your agency is the surrogacy expert so you don't have to be. A surrogacy agency works with intended parents each and every day. We bring an immense amount of experience to surrogacy, which by nature is a very complicated process.Ī tremendous amount of coordination and planning goes into a surrogacy journey, as well as legal contracts. Surrogacy is an emotional and financial process to building the family of your dreams.Ĭircle Surrogacy has been helping the LGBTQIA+ community become parents for 25 years. In gestational surrogacy, the surrogate has no genetic relationship to the child or children they deliver. At the fertility clinic, 1-2 embryos are implanted into a gestational carrier, who carries the baby(ies) to term. Through IVF, embryos are created in a lab at a fertility clinic, using the gay intended parents' biology (one or both) as well as an egg donor. It’s a process that requires medical and legal expertise, as well as a strong emotional support throughout the journey. Gestational surrogacy is the only family growing option for LGBTQ+ individuals and couples to have biological children.
The more common type of surrogacy is gestational surrogacy. Traditional surrogacy (which is not usually practiced with surrogacy agencies) is when a woman is artificially inseminated to become pregnant.
There are two types of surrogacy: traditional surrogacy and gestational surrogacy.