Legal Services for Intended Parents
Legal Services and Guidance For Your Family-Building Journey
Building a family through assisted reproduction involves deeply personal decisions and important legal steps. Meryl provides experienced legal assistance and guidance to help intended parents move forward with confidence, clarity, and peace of mind. Whether you are pursuing gestational surrogacy, working with a donor, or navigating parentage our legal services are designed to protect your rights and your growing family at every stage.
Surrogacy and Parentage Legal Services
These services support intended parents throughout the surrogacy process, from early planning through birth and legal recognition of parentage.
Embryo Donation Agreement
Drafting, negotiating, and/or reviewing of your embryo donation agreement detailing the parties’ rights and obligations.
Egg Donation Agreement
We are here to assist you with the drafting, negotiating, and/or reviewing of your egg donation agreement detailing the parties’ rights and obligations.
Sperm Donation Agreement
We will assist with drafting, negotiating, and/or reviewing your sperm donation agreement including each party’s rights and obligations.
Gestational Surrogacy Agreements
We are here to assist and represent you. Your surrogacy agreement will detail the rights, obligations, intentions, and expectations for all parties.
Donor and Third-Party Reproduction Agreements
When donor involvement is part of your family-building plan, carefully structured agreements are essential to any donor arrangement and to ensure legal rights are clear and to protect everyone involved. This is true whether working with a family member of friend, or someone you do not know.
Step- and Second-Parent Adoption
For Same-Sex Couples: To ensure that both parents will be legally recognized when one parent is the biological parent and already the legal parent. Representation for couples in Maryland and District of Columbia.
International Surrogacy
For International Intended Parents: You will need U.S. legal advice and representation — we are here to assist you when you partner with U.S. gestational carriers, donors, or both.
Document Review and Advisory Support
For intended parents who are entering into a legal arrangement with an IVF Clinic and/or with a matching program (known as an “agency”) or already have agreements in place Meryl offers legal review and guidance to ensure nothing important is overlooked.
Parentage Process for Surrogacy in MD, DC, NJ
We can assist you with obtaining the necessary court order or judgement of parentage in Maryland, District of Columbia, and New Jersey.
Review of IVF Clinic and Surrogacy Agency Documents
We will assist with reviewing any documents, agreements, and forms required by your IVF clinic or your surrogacy agency.
For Professionals: Surrogacy Agencies, Matching Programs, Attorneys
We can assist your clients — including overseas intended parents — in drafting or reviewing legal agreements for all third-party arrangements. We can represent your clients for the parentage process in Maryland, DC, and New Jersey as well.
Meryl Rosenberg, Esq.
Guidance from a Trusted Advocate for Intended Parents
Meryl B. Rosenberg, Esq. has worked in assisted reproductive law since 1993 and has guided thousands of intended parents through surrogacy and third-party reproduction. She understands that intended parents are not only navigating legal complexity, but also emotional, financial, and logistical decisions that will shape their family’s future.
Meryl’s approach is thoughtful, strategic, and deeply personal. She helps intended parents understand their options, avoid common pitfalls, and move forward with confidence, whether their journey involves surrogacy, donor arrangements, international considerations, or parentage across state lines. Her goal is to ensure that intended parents feel protected, informed, and supported from planning through birth and beyond.