GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders: MA SJC Issues Ruling Securing Parentage for Child Born Through Surrogacy
April 03, 2020
April 03, 2020
BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 3 -- GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders issued the following news release on April 2:
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled in Adoption of Daphne that the state Probate and Family Court clearly has jurisdiction to establish the parentage of a child born through gestational surrogacy in Massachusetts to an intended parent living outside the United States. Specifically, the SJC concluded there was personal and subject matter jurisdiction in . . .
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled in Adoption of Daphne that the state Probate and Family Court clearly has jurisdiction to establish the parentage of a child born through gestational surrogacy in Massachusetts to an intended parent living outside the United States. Specifically, the SJC concluded there was personal and subject matter jurisdiction in . . .