Legal services

The legal work follows the same order as the process itself.

  1. 1

    Before treatment: surrogacy contract review and drafting

    This is where the terms of the whole programme are set, in the documents you sign before treatment begins.

    • Counselling on the legal aspects of ART programmes in Ukraine
    • Assistance with referrals to fertility clinics and surrogacy agencies
    • Drafting and negotiating documents and contracts on ART services
    • Legal opinions on whether documents and procedures comply with the law
  2. 2

    During pregnancy: contract monitoring and pre-birth paperwork

    During the pregnancy the work is mostly keeping the agreements on track and preparing what the authorities will ask for at the birth.

    • Contract monitoring and compliance
    • Navigating the legal aspects of unexpected medical situations
    • Gathering the pre-birth paperwork required by medical and civil authorities
    • Acting as an objective third party to handle sensitive disputes between the parties
  3. 3

    After the birth: birth registration and exit from Ukraine

    After the birth the work is documentary: the Ukrainian birth record, your child’s travel documents, and everything that has to be translated, notarised or apostilled.

    • Birth registration
    • Documents for your child’s citizenship, passport and travel out of Ukraine
    • Translation, notarisation and apostille of documents
    • Acting as the surrogate’s independent lawyer where the law of your country requires it, as in Ireland
    • Application for Ukrainian citizenship and a passport if the child cannot obtain another citizenship
  4. 4

    Back home: parentage in your country

    What is needed at home depends on the law of your country. I prepare the Ukrainian side of it and work with your lawyer there.

    • Court procedure to establish the fact of kinship where a Ukrainian birth certificate is not recognised
    • Ukrainian documents for adoption or guardianship proceedings in your home country
    • Coordination with immigration and family lawyers in your home country

I am not an agency or a clinic.

More detail: the guide to surrogacy contracts in Ukraine, the exit process by country and the frequently asked questions.

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