Family Law & Fertility Law Blog | Louisa Ghevaert Associates

International surrogacy “hot-spots”: USA, Ukraine and India

The desire to have a family should never be underestimated and more people than ever before are turning to fertility treatment and more people than ever before are turning to fertility treatment, donor gametes, IVF and surrogacy to achieve their goal.

International surrogacy: should there be global regulation?

Surrogacy has become an increasingly popular family building option on a global scale in recent years. Unlike adoption and private international children law, there is no international harmonisation of surrogacy law.

IVF doctor knighted

IVF pioneer and Nobel prize winner, Robert Edwards, is to be knighted in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours.

Donor conception law and policy

‘Octomom’ doctor’s licence to be revoked. The Medical Board of California ruled that the fertility doctor who transferred 12 embryos to a woman who gave birth to octuplets in California in January 2009 earning her the nickname 'octomum' should have his medical licence revoked from 1 July 2011.

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