Legal Services for Intended Parents, Surrogates, Donors

Ensure your rights, understand your options, and get the personal guidance you deserve. Meryl Rosenberg has been assisting gestational surrogates, donors, and intended parents — couples, singles, and LGBTQ+ — since 1993.

 

Embryo Donation Agreement

For Intended Parents and Embryo Donors: Drafting, negotiating, and/or reviewing of your embryo donation agreement detailing the parties’ rights and obligations.

Egg Donation Agreement

For Intended Parents and Egg Donors: We are here to assist you with the drafting, negotiating, and/or reviewing of your egg donation agreement detailing the parties’ rights and obligations.

Sperm Donation Agreement

For Sperm Donors and Intended Parents: We will assist with drafting, negotiating, and/or reviewing your sperm donation agreement including each party’s rights and obligations.

Gestational Surrogacy Agreements

For intended parents and gestational carriers alike, we are here to assist and represent you. Your surrogacy agreement will detail the rights, obligations, intentions, and expectations for all parties.

Step- and Second-Parent Adoption

For Same-Sex Couples: To ensure that both parents will be legally recognized when one parent is the biological parent and already the legal parent. Representation for couples in Maryland and District of Columbia.

International Surrogacy

For International Intended Parents: You will need U.S. legal advice and representation — we are here to assist you when you partner with U.S. gestational carriers, donors, or both.

Parentage Process for Surrogacy in MD, DC, NJ

We can assist you with obtaining the necessary court order or judgement of parentage in Maryland, District of Columbia, and New Jersey.

Review of IVF Clinic and Surrogacy Agency Documents

Intended Parents: We will assist with reviewing any documents, agreements, and forms required by your IVF clinic or your surrogacy agency.

For Professionals: Surrogacy Agencies, Matching Programs, Attorneys

We can assist your clients — including overseas intended parents — in drafting or reviewing legal agreements for all third-party arrangements. We can represent your clients for the parentage process in Maryland, DC, and New Jersey as well.

Meryl Rosenberg, Esq.

Building families together is my privilege and my joy.

Meryl is an attorney in private practice who has been focusing her services exclusively on reproductive law since 1993. As an active participant in furthering the education, development, and regulation of reproductive law, she works closely with other attorneys, medical professionals and organizations such as ASRM, HRC, Resolve, AAAA, ABA, to effect positive changes in building families through ART.

Meryl is admitted to the bar in Maryland, District of Columbia, and New Jersey.

Review Meryl’s full biography, credentials, honors, accreditations, and legislative work.

By remaining a small-boutique law firm, ARTparenting is able to focus on what's important to each individual and provide a happy outcome.