{"data":{"id":"us-ny/n.y.-family-court-act-581-705","jurisdiction":"us-ny","citation":"N.Y. Family Court Act § 581-705","heading":"Adjudication","body":"§ 581-705. Adjudication. (a) A court adjudicating the parentage of a\nchild conceived through assisted reproduction or adjudicating the\nenforceability of an embryo disposition agreement may apply section\n581-202 and part three of this article retroactively.\n  (b) The participants in a surrogacy agreement that involved the\npayment of compensation prior to February fifteenth, two thousand\ntwenty-one shall not be eligible to receive a judgment of parentage\npursuant to section 581-203 or section 581-406 of this article, but\nshall be entitled to seek a judgment of parentage pursuant to section\n581-407 of this article.\n  (c) This article shall apply retroactively to uncompensated surrogacy\nagreements entered into prior to February fifteenth, two thousand\ntwenty-one, with regard to a court adjudication the parentage of a\nchild.\n  (d) Surrogacy agreements that were executed on or after February\nfifteenth, two thousand twenty-one, but before the effective date of the\nchapter of the laws of two thousand twenty-four that added this\nsubdivision that were in compliance with this article before it was\namended by the chapter of the laws of two thousand twenty-four that\nadded this subdivision shall be deemed a compliant surrogacy agreement\npursuant to section 581-406 of this article regardless of any deviations\nfrom the current provisions of this article.","path":["Family Court Act","Article 5-C. Judgments of Parentage of Children Conceived Through Assisted Reproduction or Pursuant to Surrogacy Agreements","Part 7. Miscellaneous Provisions"],"source_url":"https://legislation.nysenate.gov/api/3/laws/FCT/581-705","current_through":"2026-09-11","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:32:44Z","sha256":"6c5926a4b17b15a61e2635f83d42617ffbe07ea70c61aa88b7d23dfb2096ff8f","source_id":"us-ny","stale":false,"prev":"us-ny/n.y.-family-court-act-581-704","next":"us-ny/n.y.-family-court-act-611"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}