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AZ Supreme Court Gets Embryo Case Right, But It Feels So Wrong

AZ Supreme Court Gets Embryo Case Right, But It Feels So Wrong

Above The LawPatricia NelsonJanuary 30, 2020arizonaembryo, supremecourt, abovethelaw, trachmanlaw

A Federal Appellate Court Just Ruled That LGBT Parents Have A Constitutional Right To Be Listed On Their Baby’s Birth Certificate

A Federal Appellate Court Just Ruled That LGBT Parents Have A Constitutional Right To Be Listed On Their Baby’s Birth Certificate

Above The LawPatricia NelsonJanuary 23, 2020abovethelaw, trachmanlaw, LGBTQ

Chinese Egg-Freezing Lawsuit Exemplifies Persistent Inequalities

Chinese Egg-Freezing Lawsuit Exemplifies Persistent Inequalities

Above The LawPatricia NelsonJanuary 16, 2020

Buyer Beware: A Maryland Surrogacy Agency Was Scamming Vulnerable Hopeful Parents

Buyer Beware: A Maryland Surrogacy Agency Was Scamming Vulnerable Hopeful Parents

Above The LawPatricia NelsonJanuary 9, 2020MarylandSurrogacy, Intendedparents, gestationalsurrogate, abovethelaw, surrogacyscam

Hong Kong Court Says No Jail Time For Parents By Surrogacy. But What About Their Attorneys?

Hong Kong Court Says No Jail Time For Parents By Surrogacy. But What About Their Attorneys?

Above The LawPatricia NelsonDecember 19, 2019HongKong, surrogacy, surrogacy law, surrogate attorney, southwest, above

How Will Newly Confirmed Judge Sarah Pitlyk Rule In Surrogacy Cases?

How Will Newly Confirmed Judge Sarah Pitlyk Rule In Surrogacy Cases?

Above The LawPatricia NelsonDecember 12, 2019federaljudge, sarahpitlyk, surrogacy law, assisted reproductive technology, southwestsurrogacy, Above The Law

Rabbinical Court Rejects Donor-Conceived Child As Jewish

Rabbinical Court Rejects Donor-Conceived Child As Jewish

Above The LawPatricia NelsonDecember 5, 2019donorconceived, religiouscomplications, southwestsurrogacy, Above The Law

Dramatic Case Results In the First United Arab Emirates Surrogacy Ruling

Dramatic Case Results In the First United Arab Emirates Surrogacy Ruling

Above The LawPatricia NelsonNovember 28, 2019Above The Law, surrogacy law, surrogacy, southwestsurrogacy

Do Attorneys Need Even More Regulation? Some Think The Surrogacy Ones Do.

Do Attorneys Need Even More Regulation? Some Think The Surrogacy Ones Do.

Above The LawPatricia NelsonNovember 21, 2019surrogacy, attorney, law, regulation, abovethelaw, southwestsurrogacy

Connecticut Supreme Court Restores Reason To Embryo Wars, Also Punts On Key Questions

Connecticut Supreme Court Restores Reason To Embryo Wars, Also Punts On Key Questions

Above The LawPatricia NelsonNovember 14, 2019embryowars, IVF, connecticut, supremecourt, Above The Law, trachmanlaw

Colorado Is Unfortunately The Latest To Have A Doctor Using His Own Sperm To Impregnate Patients

Colorado Is Unfortunately The Latest To Have A Doctor Using His Own Sperm To Impregnate Patients

Above The LawPatricia NelsonNovember 7, 2019spermdoctor, SpermDonor, sperm, southwestsurrogacy

Scarier Than Halloween: Polish Government Legalizes Involuntary ‘Donation’ Of Embryos

Scarier Than Halloween: Polish Government Legalizes Involuntary ‘Donation’ Of Embryos

Above The LawPatricia NelsonOctober 31, 2019Embryos, Polishgovernment, Above The Law, southwestsurrogacy, surrogacy

Beware Of The Home DNA Test! Mom Strikes Back Against Sperm Bank

Beware Of The Home DNA Test! Mom Strikes Back Against Sperm Bank

Above The LawPatricia NelsonOctober 24, 2019HomeDNAtest, DNA test, DNA Kit, Sperm Bank, Above The Law, southwestsurrogacy

Transgender Man Ruled ‘Mother’ Of His Child

Transgender Man Ruled ‘Mother’ Of His Child

Above The LawPatricia NelsonOctober 17, 2019lgbt families, LGBTQ, Above The Law, law, surrogacy

Sperm Donor Sues Because His Medical School Misused His Sperm

Sperm Donor Sues Because His Medical School Misused His Sperm

Above The LawPatricia NelsonOctober 10, 2019SpermDonor, MedicalSchool, Sperm, Above The Law

Is The U.S. Discriminating Against Gay Parents? Or Everyone With A Donor-Conceived Child Born Overseas?

Is The U.S. Discriminating Against Gay Parents? Or Everyone With A Donor-Conceived Child Born Overseas?

Above The LawPatricia NelsonOctober 3, 2019southwestsurrogacy, Above The Law, discrimination, gay parenting, donor, Overseas IPs

Attorneys And Advocacy: What To Do When The Law In Your State Is Hostile To Family-Building (Looking At You, New York)

Attorneys And Advocacy: What To Do When The Law In Your State Is Hostile To Family-Building (Looking At You, New York)

Above The LawPatricia NelsonSeptember 26, 2019assisted reproductive technology, newyorklaws, surrogacy, pregnancy, NewMexicoSurrogacy

Sperm Donor Linked To Autism Cluster — Scientifically Fascinating, Legally Complicated

Sperm Donor Linked To Autism Cluster — Scientifically Fascinating, Legally Complicated

Above The LawPatricia NelsonSeptember 19, 2019NewMexicoSurrogacy, surrogacy, pregnancy, spermdonor, autismcluster

73-Year-Old Sets Record For Oldest Woman To Give Birth… So Far

73-Year-Old Sets Record For Oldest Woman To Give Birth… So Far

Above The LawPatricia NelsonSeptember 12, 2019above the law, pregnancy, oldestwomantogivebirth

Donor Anonymity Walls Are Crumbling – And This New California Law Is Helping

Donor Anonymity Walls Are Crumbling – And This New California Law Is Helping

Above The LawPatricia NelsonSeptember 5, 2019DNA, DonorAnonymity, Californialaw, above the law, NewMexicoSurrogacy