Meryl was my able lawyer, Caring. providing me with the security of knowing that Experience. everything was being done Integrity. properly… my matchmaker, finding me the perfect surrogate to bring my children into the world. But she was also my friend, holding my hand at tough moments and genuinely sharing in my joy.
ARTparenting.com Your Path to Parenthood
Providing LGBT couples and singles with legal services and arrangements for building
your family through surrogacy, third-party reproduction, and second-parent adoption.
ARTparenting 1004 Willowleaf Way Potomac, MD 20854 phone: 301-217-0074 email: [email protected] creative by: ellenemmerich.com by: creative
Meryl’s passion to help Caring. intended parents comes Possibilities on the Experience. through in all that she Integrity. does. Every day we look at Path to Parenthood our twin girls with wonder... When the traditional road to parent- Q&A We’ve never felt so content hood is uncertain or disappointing — and blessed. we offer hope and success for LGBT Next Steps LEGAL SERVICES couples and singles. Ask us questions. What are Assisted Reproductive What is Second-Parent Adoption? We have answers. ♥ Technologies (ART)? Second-parent adoption is the legal Building Families Since 1993 We'll help you get Many times, individuals cannot become procedure by which a co-parent adopts his all the information ARTparenting has assisted hundreds of couples and pregnant without specialized medical or her partner’s child. As a result, the child you need to feel assistance. ART procedures are singles on the path to parenthood through our complete has two legal parents. Both partners will confident taking the those that employ advanced medical surrogacy program and legal services for second-parent have equal legal status in terms of their next step. technologies to achieve a pregnancy. relationship to the child. For LGBT men and adoption, egg donation, sperm donation, and embryo women, it’s an important legal tool. donation. We feel privileged to have been a part of What is Third-Party Reproduction? building so many families. Third-party reproduction refers to a Can we use a sperm donor, an egg donor, 1. Our website, process in which any of the following or both in a gestational surrogacy? Your Path to Becoming a Family ARTparenting.com, is provided by someone other than the Yes. In many cases, the sperm and/or egg of provides extensive intended parent(s): sperm, eggs, embryos, the intended parents are utilized. However, If you need a second-parent adoption to secure your information about our or when a surrogate assists by carrying in some cases, either a sperm donor or an partner's status as a legally-recognized parent, or if you've surrogacy program and an embryo to term. The third party’s egg donor, or sometimes both, are utilized. chosen to have a child through assisted reproduction, we other legal services involvement is limited to the reproductive can provide the applicable legal services. If you choose including second- process and does not include raising the Can we use our own surrogate and still our complete surrogacy program — we'll guide you parent adoption. If work with you? child or any parental rights. through every step. you don’t find the Yes. ARTparenting will prepare the legal information you need, SECOND-PARENT ADOPTION SECOND-PARENT What is Surrogacy? agreements. We can also manage expense please ask us.
Our Full Surrogacy Program Features ♥ A surrogate is a woman who carries accounts and assist the parties throughout a baby through the pregnancy for the process, including taking care of the ♥ Careful recruiting and full screening of gestational another person. Gestational surrogacy necessary paperwork or court order for surrogates before matching 2. Online Inquiry involves the use of IVF where the recognition of parental rights and the birth ♥ Attentive and personalized matching Fill out our confidential embryo is implanted by embryo transfer. certificate before or after birth. ♥ Oversee the relationship between intended parents online inquiry form, Traditional surrogacy involves the and their surrogate and we will provide you artificial insemination of the surrogate. Can we use our own egg or a known with more information. sperm donor? ♥ Step-by-step guidance, support, and advice If you prefer, call Meryl When is the right time to contact an Yes. You will still need to have an egg-donor ♥ Collaboration with all relevant professionals at 301-217-0074. ART attorney? or sperm-donor agreement in place. In this ♥ Review of insurance coverage you start any medical or fertility Before case, your donor will be screened medically ♥ No added fees for preparation of legal agreements treatments. You want to be fully informed by your IVF center. and case management 3. FREE initial about the process and clear about all consultation with How do we get started? legal aspects and any required decision ♥ Finalizing all legal rights Meryl. We invite you making prior to egg retrieval, sperm Please call Meryl at 301-217-0074, or visit to meet with Meryl to Our Founder, Meryl B. Rosenberg, Esq. personally donation, embryo creation, or to signing our website at www.ARTparenting.com to discuss the process in handles all legal services for the intended parents. We are any documents. submit an inquiry form. We can provide you person, or by phone. with information about how we might be of devoted to providing our clients with personal attention, assistance, and can make arrangements for advice, and care. a free initial consultation. ARTparenting.com ARTparenting.com 301-217-0074 COMPLETE SURROGACY PROGRAM SURROGACY COMPLETE