Modern families and those involving known donors, co-parents, surrogacy and assisted conception create additional layers of legal complexity and potential difficulties. In addition, the UK has some of the highest rates of relationship breakdown in Europe. Difficulties can arise at any time on a wide range of issues including: acquisition of legal parenthood, acquisition and exercise of parental responsibility, birth certificate arrangements, day-to-day care of a child, and contact with a child.
Specialist fertility, parenting, and family law advice can help you in a number of ways, including managing and mitigating the legal risks and issues involved, helping you to understand what would happen legally and practically if family life doesn’t go to plan, and legally restructuring arrangements for your family following relationship breakdown or a change in circumstances.
We can provide sensitive, experienced, and specialist legal advice on legal parenthood for a child conceived through fertility treatment, assisted conception, donor conception, natural conception or surrogacy (including declarations of parentage, DNA testing, parental order proceedings and adoption).
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