Expert Surrogacy Consultation for Intended Parents

Based on decades of working closely with intended parents, surrogates, and the wide network of medical, legal, mental health, and other professionals that make up the surrogacy world, Meryl B. Rosenberg, Esq. can deliver the inside intelligence and insights you need to feel confident, guided, and fully supported. 

Contact Meryl for a free 15-minute, introductory call to discuss your best path forward with surrogacy.

Consulting arrangements and fees can be structured to suit your needs.

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Meryl is your advocate, champion, and adviser to the extent that you want and need, and will help you with:

  • Choosing a trustworthy surrogacy agency or matching program, by assessing and understanding the services they do and do not provide.

  • Knowing if Independent Surrogacy is right for you, and getting the guidance you need for a successful journey.

  • Evaluating whether the gestational surrogate has been screened properly and is a good fit for you.

  • Providing special counsel if the surrogate you have chosen to work with comes through a friend, family member, colleague, or social media.

  • Understanding surrogacy costs and expenses, cutting through the gray areas for you.

  • Knowing how to compare actual costs estimated and charged by different surrogacy agencies.

  • Learning how much a surrogate gets compensated, and what the related fees and expenses may be.

  • Selecting and evaluating insurance policies, and learning about the various insurance coverages you need.

  • Knowing what legal assistance you need and who should represent you in your particular state and country.

  • Choosing a fertility center.

  • Finding your egg donor, sperm donor, and/or embryo donor.

  • Prescreening your surrogate, and understanding why and when she needs her own attorney.

  • Fully comprehending your legal needs, including ensuring legal protections and rights for same-sex and single intended parents.

  • Determining what your consulting needs may be throughout your surrogacy journey — over and above what your agency provides.

  • Adhering to what’s required of International Intended Parents (from outside the US) — and securing appropriate legal assistance in both the U.S. and your home country.

Flexible consulting arrangements and fees are always structured to suit your needs. 


If you are like many Intended Parents focused on building your family, you may be overwhelmed by information about surrogacy, and about the direction in which to proceed. Chances are you are also largely unaware of the complexity involved in this otherwise wonderful and life-changing process.

No one understands better than Meryl how complex, and even overwhelming, the surrogacy process can be. That is why she is there for you — to cut through the confusion and forge the best path forward.

Schedule a brief, 15-minute, FREE consultation with Meryl to see how she can best help you today.

Let me help you navigate your family-building journey successfully, knowledgeably, and professionally. Your care, comfort level, and trust are my top priorities as the professional guiding you. From the moment we have our first conversation until the day the baby goes home, I am there to assist you as you need, with the highest standards of integrity.
— Meryl B. Rosenberg, Esq.

About Meryl

Surrogacy pioneer and attorney Meryl B. Rosenberg, Esq. has worked in the field of assisted reproductive law in general, and in surrogacy in particular, since 1993, with a celebrated legal practice focused on third-party reproduction, including a focus on Surrogacy and other Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART).

In addition to understanding the complex legal issues involved in any surrogacy arrangement from the intended parents’ perspective, Meryl has become a nationally and internationally known expert, speaker, advisor, and consultant on navigating the ins and outs of the journey to parenthood.

Few individuals working in the field today have the level of familiarity, experience, professionalism, and expertise that Meryl brings to bear on the full range of issues and challenges that intended parents from the U.S. and abroad may face along the path to parenthood through surrogacy and third-party reproduction.

As the founder and principal of ARTparenting, Meryl has put her expertise to work ensuring happy outcomes for countless intended parents who turn to gestational surrogacy to build their families.

Review Meryl’s full biography, credentials, honors, accreditations, and legislative work.

 
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Real-time, knowledge-based guidance.

Intended Parents considering surrogacy require expert, experience-based information to navigate the complex emotional, legal, medical, personal, and other aspects of the surrogacy journey. Here are some key areas where many need support — and on which Meryl B. Rosenberg can provide invaluable, specific, no-nonsense guidance.

LEGAL GUIDANCE

  • Contracts

  • Parental Rights

  • Jurisdictional Issues

FINANCIAL PLANNING

  • Cost Estimates

  • Insurance

  • Trust/escrow Accounts

LOGISTICAL SUPPORT

  • Agency Selection

  • Birth Planning

PRE-BIRTH and/or POST-BIRTH SUPPORT

  • Legal Finalization

For services that Meryl B. Rosenberg herself does not provide directly, she calls on her vast network of professional colleagues, and can refer clients as needed for: emotional support and counseling, and even post-birth parenting resources.

Pursuing surrogacy without legal guidance is unwise.

To protect Intended Parents, Gestational Surrogates, and Donors, legal expertise and representation is essential. Meryl can consult with you on:

SURROGACY AND DONOR-MATCHING AGREEMENTS

  • Drafting and Reviewing Contracts

  • Enforcement of Agreements

PARENTAL RIGHTS

  • Establishing Legal Parentage

  • Adoption or Parental Orders

JURISDICTIONAL ISSUES

  • Local and International Laws

  • State Laws

  • Immigration and Citizenship

REFERRALS

  • Agency Selection

  • Immigration and Citizenship

  • Matching Programs/Agencies

  • IVF Centers

  • Mental Health Providers

  • Trust and Estate Attorneys

FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS

  • Escrow Accounts: type needed and how to choose one

  • Insurance

CONFIDENTIALITY AND PRIVACY

  • Protecting Privacy

PRE-BIRTH and POST-BIRTH LEGAL MATTERS

  • Birth Certificate Matters

  • Finalizing Legal Parentage