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11
Jan
2026

Blog, Louisa Ghevaert, Modern family law, Parenting law, Transgender law

Transgender Parenting & Children Law: FZ v MZ & FZ v Y Council [2025]

The recent transgender parenting case of FZ v MZ & FZ v Y Council [2025] EWHC 3338 (Fam), in which Louisa Ghevaert Associates acted for the Applicant, highlights the complex legal issues and difficulties that can be encountered by transgender individuals building families and obtaining parental status, birth registration, parental responsibility, care and upbringing of children under English law. The complicated legal landscape can produce challenging outcomes for transgender individuals, that do not reflect their acquired gender nor their child and family's lived reality. In some cases, as this case further demonstrates, it can leave transgender individuals without automatic legal status and rights for their child altogether under English law and no automatic right to be registered as a parent on their child's British birth certificate.

24
Sep
2025

Blog, Louisa Ghevaert, Modern family law, News, Posthumous conception law, Surrogacy law

British Fertility Society’s Creating Modern Families Day 2025

The British Fertility Society Creating Modern Families Day took place on 23 September 2025 in London as part of BFS Study Week. It delivered an excellent multi-disciplinary training programme that was well attended by fertility clinicians, embryologists, nurses, counsellors and other fertility professionals. Louisa Ghevaert was delighted to be invited back as a speaker to give a surrogacy law update and take part in a lively question and answer panel addressing complex fertility and family law issues in practice.

12
Aug
2025

Blog, Donor conception law, Louisa Ghevaert, Modern family law, Parenting law

The Risks of Unregulated Sperm Donation: Serial Sperm Donor Joe Donor

The recent case of Re CA and Ors (Children of Unregulated Sperm Donor) [2025] EWFC 130 brings into focus the threats posed by unregulated sperm donation, specifically at the hand of serial sperm donor known as ‘Joe Donor’. In this case, Mr Justice Poole determines whether ‘Joe Donor’ – officially named Robert Albon – has any rights to a Declaration of Parentage, a Parental Responsibility Order and a Child Arrangements Order for two of the possible 180 children he has fathered. The case also brings to light the vulnerabilities of the two children’s mothers and raises concerns about exploitation and abuse that can accompany informal sperm donation, and what this means for the best interests of the children involved.

06
Aug
2025

Blog, Donor conception law, fertility law, Louisa Ghevaert, Modern family law, Parenting law

F v J & Others [2024] and the Pitfalls of Mismatched Expectations, Rushed Known Sperm Donation and Co-Parenting Arrangements

F v J & Others [2024[ EWHC 2802 (Fam) is a case which deals with the realities and challenges of co-parenting and highlights the complexities of known sperm donation - how it should be approached with great care and proactive management of the legal aspects which underpin these family building arrangements. Specifically, it raises issues of legal parentage in the context of known sperm donation and assisted reproduction, and what can happen when this process is rushed or hurried. Additionally, this case raises concerns around communication in co-parenting relationships, and stresses the importance of the stability of those relationships, both for the benefit of the parents, and for the wellbeing of the child.

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