Surrogacy Laws By State
The team at Love & Kindness knows that starting your surrogacy journey can feel both exciting and intimidating, especially because surrogacy laws vary greatly based on what state a surrogate lives in. Whether you’re joining our family or another agency for your surrogacy journey, we wanted to provide you with a map showing some of the most important laws and regulations as they pertain to you based on your marital status, sexual orientation, and more.
These states either expressly permit surrogacy by statute or case law, or have no law prohibiting surrogacy. A secure legal process exists in these states to establish parental rights.
These states present potential legal obstacles and require additional legal processes depending on the circumstance. In limited circumstances, surrogacy is practiced in these states, but results may be unpredictable.
Find the laws that apply to you.
State surrogacy laws can also change greatly based on the demographic information of the intended parent or parents of a child born using gestational surrogacy. Your marital status, sexual orientation, and more may change the ease with which you’ll be able to get an order assigning you the parents at birth.
Answer some questions below, and we’ll take you to the laws you need to know about.
Surrogacy Friendly States
Alabama
Alaska
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Illinois
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin