About surrogacy
We can help you get your children returned.
We have the experience to help gain the best possible outcome for you quickly & at low cost.
- Our Process
- Helpful Information
FreePhone case assessment
Let’s talk about your family confidentially. We will need to have a chat over the phone about your circumstances, understanding everything you have done so far to resolve your legal issue and determine if our family lawyers can help your situation.
Book appointment with our family lawyers
If it's clear consulting a solicitor you will help your situation, we can identify the right one for your case and arrange a convenient appointment for you. We will review any documents you send us, and brief the solicitor before you arrive to maximise your time with them.
In depth consultation
At your meeting the solicitor will be able to provide sound legal advice indicate the outcome they expect to achieve and the legal pathway they would take with you to ensure the best possible result based off past cases and experience.
Sound legal advice & pathway forward
Armed with sound legal advice and a fixed fee quote for representation throughout the process you can then decide if you would like them to act on your behalf moving forward.
Make sure the recovery order is completed properly.
Don't risk making mistakes getting your children returned.
Lawyers with recovery order experience
Meet with lawyers who have successfully returned children to their parents.
- Past Cases
- Good Results
- Happy Clients
What is surrogacy?
Surrogacy is a method of assisted reproduction where a woman carries a child on behalf of another person or couple. The woman carrying the child is called the birth mother and the person or couple are called the arranged parents.
Sometimes the child will be the biological child of the birth mother and the arranged father or a donor. This is called traditional surrogacy.
Gestational surrogacy is where an embryo is created using either the arranged parents or a donor’s egg or sperm. The embryo is then transferred to the birth mother’s womb. In this case the birth mother would have no genetic relationship to the child.
How it works
The surrogacy arrangement can involve either traditional surrogacy or gestational surrogacy. Western Australia is currently the only state in Australia where traditional surrogacy is permitted.
The surrogacy arrangement must not be a commercial one. That is, the birth mother cannot receive any payment other than for the reasonable expenses associated with the pregnancy and birth. It is an offence to enter into a surrogacy arrangement for reward or to assist someone else to do so. There are also other offences around publishing anything in relation to surrogacy arrangements for reward.
What's involved?
There is a formal process that must be followed for the surrogacy arrangement to achieve the end result of the intended parents obtaining legal parentage for the child.
There are very specific requirements under the Surrogacy Act 2008 (WA). These include:
- The birth mother must be at least 25 years old and usually will have to have successfully given birth before.
- The surrogacy arrangement must be put in writing and signed by:
- each of the arranged parents
- the birth mother and her husband or de facto partner, and
- any donor (if known) who will be providing an egg or sperm as well as that person’s spouse or de facto partner.
- Each person who signed the agreement must have undertaken specific counselling, been assessed by a clinical psychologist and a medical practitioner and received independent legal advice. This must take place at least 3 months before signing the surrogacy arrangement.
- The agreement must then be approved in writing by the Reproductive Technology Council.
Make sure the recovery order is completed properly.
Don't risk making mistakes getting your children returned.
Lawyers with recovery order experience
Meet with lawyers who have successfully returned children to their parents.
- Past Cases
- Good Results
- Happy Clients
Our Process
FreePhone case assessment
Let’s talk about your family confidentially. We will need to have a chat over the phone about your circumstances, understanding everything you have done so far to resolve your legal issue and determine if our family lawyers can help your situation.
Book appointment with our family lawyers
If it's clear consulting a solicitor you will help your situation, we can identify the right one for your case and arrange a convenient appointment for you. We will review any documents you send us, and brief the solicitor before you arrive to maximise your time with them.
In depth consultation
At your meeting the solicitor will be able to provide sound legal advice indicate the outcome they expect to achieve and the legal pathway they would take with you to ensure the best possible result based off past cases and experience.
Sound legal advice & pathway forward
Armed with sound legal advice and a fixed fee quote for representation throughout the process you can then decide if you would like them to act on your behalf moving forward.
Make sure the recovery order is completed properly..
Don't risk making mistakes getting your children returned.
Lawyers with recovery order experience
Meet with lawyers who have successfully returned children to their parents.
- Past Cases
- Good Results
- Happy Clients
Helpful Information
What is surrogacy?
Surrogacy is a method of assisted reproduction where a woman carries a child on behalf of another person or couple. The woman carrying the child is called the birth mother and the person or couple are called the arranged parents.
Sometimes the child will be the biological child of the birth mother and the arranged father or a donor. This is called traditional surrogacy.
Gestational surrogacy is where an embryo is created using either the arranged parents or a donor’s egg or sperm. The embryo is then transferred to the birth mother’s womb. In this case the birth mother would have no genetic relationship to the child.
How it works
The surrogacy arrangement can involve either traditional surrogacy or gestational surrogacy. Western Australia is currently the only state in Australia where traditional surrogacy is permitted.
The surrogacy arrangement must not be a commercial one. That is, the birth mother cannot receive any payment other than for the reasonable expenses associated with the pregnancy and birth. It is an offence to enter into a surrogacy arrangement for reward or to assist someone else to do so. There are also other offences around publishing anything in relation to surrogacy arrangements for reward.
What's involved?
There is a formal process that must be followed for the surrogacy arrangement to achieve the end result of the intended parents obtaining legal parentage for the child.
There are very specific requirements under the Surrogacy Act 2008 (WA). These include:
- The birth mother must be at least 25 years old and usually will have to have successfully given birth before.
- The surrogacy arrangement must be put in writing and signed by:
- each of the arranged parents
- the birth mother and her husband or de facto partner, and
- any donor (if known) who will be providing an egg or sperm as well as that person’s spouse or de facto partner.
- Each person who signed the agreement must have undertaken specific counselling, been assessed by a clinical psychologist and a medical practitioner and received independent legal advice. This must take place at least 3 months before signing the surrogacy arrangement.
- The agreement must then be approved in writing by the Reproductive Technology Council.
Make sure the recovery order is completed properly.
Don't risk making mistakes getting your children returned.
Lawyers with recovery order experience
Meet with lawyers who have successfully returned children to their parents.
- Past Cases
- Good Results
- Happy Clients
