Gay Couple

About You

Increasing numbers of gay couples are choosing to conceive a child and become parents in the UK through fertility treatment, surrogacy, co-parenting, known donation, adoption and fostering.

Family building choices will often depend upon a range of factors, including: desire to have a biological child, parental autonomy, finances, logistics or a desire to help a child in care.

There are many legal issues to consider when building and legally securing a modern family as a gay couple in the UK, including:

• Family building options and law.
• Fertility preservation and maximisation options and law.
• Fertility treatment law.
• Co-parenting law (if you plan to co-parent a child with another person or couple).
• Surrogacy law (if you plan to conceive a child through surrogacy).
• Donation law (if you plan to conceive through known donation).
• Adoption and fostering law (if you plan to adopt or foster a child).
• Guardianship for a child (should you pass away or become incapacitated).
• Financial provision for a child.
• Legal parentage (including birth certificate arrangements).
• Care and upbringing of a child (including exercise of parental responsibility and dispute management with a co-parent, surrogate, former partner or other individual).

We can provide expert bespoke legal solutions and a range of flexible legal services to suit your needs and wishes. We can work with you from pre-conception, during pregnancy and throughout parenthood to create and safeguard your much wanted family.