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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.

18
Dec
2025

Blog, Declaration of Parentage, Donor conception law, Parenting law, Transgender law

FZ v MZ & FZ v Y Council [2025] EWHC 3338 (Fam): Transgender Legal Parentage & Birth Registration Dispute

The case of FZ v MZ & FZ v Y Council [2025] EWHC 3338 (Fam) brings into focus legal difficulties encountered by a transgender man with a Gender Recognition Certificate in obtaining legal parenthood and birth registration for two children in England and Wales. It tested the law for the first time on whether he could be lawfully registered as father on his second child’s birth certificate following his wife’s privately arranged artificial conception with donor sperm outside of a licensed UK fertility clinic. It also necessitated a claim for Judicial Review to quash his incorrect registration on his first child’s birth certificate, there being no statutory power to enable the Registrar General to register afresh without leaving the initial registration manually struck through on the register of births and deaths. Louisa Ghevaert Associates acted for the Applicant (Claimant) in this case.

16
Oct
2025

Blog, Parenting law

National Adoption Week 2025

National Adoption Week (20-26 Oct) promotes diverse pathways to parenthood through adoption, from agency adoptions to step-parent adoptions and assisted conception, highlighting benefits for children and families.

13
Oct
2025

Blog, Modern family law, Parenting law

Baby Loss Awareness Week 2025

Every year, all across the UK, thousands of families come together on 15 October, the final day of Baby Loss Awareness Week to light a candle for the ‘Wave of Light’. This event is organised by the Baby Loss Charity Sands (Still and Neonatal Death), to honour and pay respects to all babies who died too soon. The ‘Wave of Light’ is a beautiful commemoration of every family’s story of experiencing baby loss, of every broken heart and every lost son, daughter, brother and sister. The chance to come together provides an opportunity to foster a sense of closeness and intimacy, and to combat the isolation that so often accompanies such a traumatic loss. In this way, those grieving the loss of their baby know that they are not alone, that they have each other- that there is a sense of camaraderie and solidarity.

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