We hope the law will change to recognise and make space for parents through non-biological surrogacy. In the meantime, we will continue to find creative solutions for parents wherever possible which navigate the law successfully and safely. Surrogacy without a biological connection is legal, and possible, but how you resolve the legal issues needs careful planning given the facts of each particular case and often it is a jigsaw of solutions which all need to be fitted together.
Parental responsibility and legal parenthood are legal terms which relate to the rights and responsibilities which parents and other adults have in relation to children. Both are possible at once but also individually without the other. Below, we look at the nuances...
Natalie was delighted to join a wonderful panel at Dawson Cornwell in London to discuss the maze of international adoption and surrogacy, speaking alongside adoption law specialist Hilka Holman, Judge Fiona Mwale of the Malawi High Court, Spencer Clarke from the English Law Commission and immigration lawyer Barry O’Leary, at an event which prompted a lively and passionate discussion about how we could improve adoption to better support the welfare of children.
The High Court has granted an adoption order to British parents through US surrogacy and egg/sperm donation in a new reported NGA Law case
Adoption typically conjures an image of prospective adoptive parents going through a rigorous assessment before being approved by an adoption panel and matched with a child who needs a loving home. This is agency adoption, but there are other forms of adoption too....
Natalie has written an article published in The Review about an important recent case on step-parent adoption from the President of the High Court Family Division
The English High Court has made a non-biological mother through US surrogacy her son’s legal mother via adoption – rather than a parental order – in an important new UK court ruling.
To celebrate Pride, we look back at some of the UK’s major legal milestones for LGBT+ families over the past 15 years. It’s amazing to think that only 15 years ago LGBT partnerships, parenthood and non-cisgender identity were all completely invisible in the eyes of UK...
NGA Law is ten years old today! To celebrate our birthday, Natalie and Helen reflect on the last ten years. Our and NGA Law’s journey over the last ten years has been a real whirlwind. We have had some big moments, as well the less obvious but no less significant...
On 1 June 2003, the Convention on the Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption (1993 Hague Convention) came into force in the UK. The purpose of the Convention is to regulate cross-border adoption. Signatory countries must have...