Intended Parent country profile · US

United States as Intended Parent

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What the public record says

US intended parents must treat surrogacy as state-law dependent. Home-state parentage, insurance, embryo transport, and birth-state orders cannot be assumed from a federal rule.

Published journey focus

state-law counsel
clinic and embryo creation
GC matching
pre-birth or post-birth parentage order
birth certificate
passport or state vital records

Sources

Uniform Law Commission: Parentage Actmodel_law · checked 2026-07-08
Axios: Surrogacy laws are all over the mapnews_analysis · checked 2026-07-08