Through adoption and surrogacy, people and couples can be able to develop or grow their families. Although both want to provide a child with a loving home, they have different legal ways. We realize how sensitive such issues are at First Law Solicitors and we provide professional advice on how to make every action legal and humane.
Adoption provides a permanent legal parenthood to an adult or a couple of a child who is not theirs biologically. When an adoption order is granted, the entire parenting rights and responsibilities are transferred to the adoptive parents and the child is considered a member of the family even before it was born.
Under the UK law any one of a wide category of people can apply such as:
The applicants will have to be 21 years old and the court will have to be convinced that they are capable of offering a stable, loving and safe environment.
The typical steps are:
An order cannot be undone after it has been granted. The adoptive parents are issued with a new birth certificate of the child.
Surrogacy is a situation where a woman gives birth and raises a child on behalf of an individual or a couple. The two main types are:
Traditional surrogacy: the egg of the surrogate is utilized and therefore she is the biological mother.
Gestational surrogacy: the embryo belongs to the targeted parents or donors thus the surrogate is not related to the embryo.
The surrogate mother in the UK is the one who gives birth at birth whether biological or not. In case she is a married or in a civil partnership, her husband also can be a legal parent. In order to transfer legal parenthood, postnatal Parental Order should be requested by the intended parents. The order assigns rights that are permanent in case:
Adoption and surrogacy need a lot of legal planning as well as emotional support. At First Law Solicitors our clients are already guided through all stages of the process including initial advice and paperwork stages up to the court applications and all the requirements are fulfilled. You are looking forward to adopting a child or even starting a family via surrogacy, our seasoned family law solicitors can guide you through the process in a warm, considerate, and secretive way to help you sail through and make the best out of it.
When you are thinking about adoption or surrogacy, then you should call First Law Solicitors to seek expert advice based on the needs of your own family.
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