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N.Y. Family Court Act § 581-705: Adjudication

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  1. Family Court Act
  2. Article 5-C. Judgments of Parentage of Children Conceived Through Assisted Reproduction or Pursuant to Surrogacy Agreements
  3. Part 7. Miscellaneous Provisions

§ 581-705. Adjudication. (a) A court adjudicating the parentage of a

child conceived through assisted reproduction or adjudicating the

enforceability of an embryo disposition agreement may apply section

581-202 and part three of this article retroactively.

(b) The participants in a surrogacy agreement that involved the

payment of compensation prior to February fifteenth, two thousand

twenty-one shall not be eligible to receive a judgment of parentage

pursuant to section 581-203 or section 581-406 of this article, but

shall be entitled to seek a judgment of parentage pursuant to section

581-407 of this article.

(c) This article shall apply retroactively to uncompensated surrogacy

agreements entered into prior to February fifteenth, two thousand

twenty-one, with regard to a court adjudication the parentage of a

child.

(d) Surrogacy agreements that were executed on or after February

fifteenth, two thousand twenty-one, but before the effective date of the

chapter of the laws of two thousand twenty-four that added this

subdivision that were in compliance with this article before it was

amended by the chapter of the laws of two thousand twenty-four that

added this subdivision shall be deemed a compliant surrogacy agreement

pursuant to section 581-406 of this article regardless of any deviations

from the current provisions of this article.

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