Brief Series
1:39
1:34
8:00
14:28
5:18
7:33
Assisted Reproduction and Parentage
Sperm donation, surrogacy, and who the law recognizes as a parent.
1:39Brief
What Are the Risks of Sperm Donation?
What known and anonymous sperm donors should know about parentage, child support, and donor agreements
1:34Brief
Who owns your sperm after you die?
Frozen sperm, consent, and whether a child conceived after death can inherit.
8:00Brief
Sperm Donor Parental Rights
When sperm and egg donors are, and are not, legal parents, and why the answer still depends on the state.
14:28Brief
Surrogacy – Legal Risks
Parentage judgments, interstate birth certificates, surrogate autonomy, and gestational vs. genetic surrogacy.
5:18Brief
Acknowledgement of Paternity
How unmarried fathers establish parentage, why the form is so binding, and where DNA tests fit in.
7:33Brief
More Than Two Legal Parents?
From Michael H. v. Gerald D. to three-parent judgments: how parentage law recognizes multi-parent families.
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