Surrogacy Solicitors

Helping navigate through surrogacy and the law

Legal Advice – Advice to couples and families considering international surrogacy, and the processes involved in bringing a child back into the UK.

Guidance – Guidance on ensuring you receive the right support and advice in the country in which the child is born. All the necessary procedures will need to be completed in accordance with the laws of that country. We’ll focus on assisting you to ensure a quick and smooth process from abroad back to the UK with the child.

Court Documents – Preparation of Parental Order proceedings in England and Wales to ensure you’re legally recognised as the parents.

Why choose Hodge Jones & Allen Solicitors?

Our specialist team will be flexible when working with you so we meet the needs of you and your family. We understand the sensitive nature of the process and work with absolute discretion.

Most of our clients have used a surrogate abroad, and therefore need advice regarding both the family and immigration aspects of the arrangement, and help in bringing their child back to the UK. We work closely together as a team to support you with all UK legal aspects of your surrogacy arrangements.

Our Private Client team have experience in assisting intended parents to prepare a will to cover specific issues raised as part of the surrogacy arrangements. In some countries, this is a requirement in order to proceed with the surrogacy.

Featured cases

Ukrainian surrogate could not be found

We represented the commissioning parents in the reported case R and S v T (Surrogacy: Service, Consent & Payments) [2015] and successfully obtained Parental Orders for twins where the Ukrainian surrogate could not be found and could therefore not provide her consent to the making of the Parental Orders.

Surrogacy arrangement in India

We represented the commissioning parents on an application for Parental Orders for twins following an arrangement in India. The commissioning father was an Indian national and the commissioning mother was a British national. The twins could not come into the country as the commissioning mother could not pass on her British nationality. The Home Office was joined as a party to the application to secure the twins entry to the country and to complete the Parental Order application.

Representation of same sex couple

We represented a same sex couple on an application for a Parental Order for their son following an arrangement in the USA. The couple lived and worked in USA for several years. We successfully demonstrated that at least one of them remained domiciled in England & Wales to obtain the Parental Order.