Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Verdict
Publication Date
1-10-2012
Abstract
Surrogacy arrangements, in which a set of intended parents contract with a woman to gestate a child for them in exchange for money, have many potential complications. Studies of surrogacy suggest that the vast, vast majority of surrogacy contracts are actually carried out without a hitch. But when things go wrong, they can go drastically wrong, leaving courts and the parties to the agreement to sort out a situation that was never intended to occur.
An ongoing litigation in New Jersey, A.G.R. v. D.R.H., presents just such a case. There, a gay male couple, S.H. and D.R.H., decided to pursue surrogacy as a means of having a child. D.R.H.’s sister, A.G.R., agreed to serve as a gestational carrier for the couple. (It is not clear, despite the formal contracts governing the parties’ arrangement, whether A.G.R. was compensated for her gestational service.) The egg was provided by a donor; the sperm was provided by S.H.; and the pregnancy was achieved through in vitro fertilization. Twin girls were born on October 4, 2006.
Recommended Citation
Joanna L. Grossman,
The Complications of Surrogacy: A New Jersey Court Refuses to Uphold a Surrogacy Arrangement, but Awards Full Custody to the Intended Father Verdict
(2012)
Available at: https://scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/faculty_scholarship/937