{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-10-10-557.21","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 10, § 10-557.21","heading":"Death of intended parent prior to birth of child –","body":"Testamentary and inheritance rights.\n\nA. In the event that an intended parent predeceases the birth\n\nof a child contemplated by a validated gestational agreement, the\n\nterms and conditions of the gestational agreement shall remain in\n\nfull force and effect, and upon birth the resulting child shall be\n\ndelivered into the sole care and custody of the surviving intended\n\nparent, if an intended parent so survives. If there are no\n\nsurviving intended parents, the child shall be delivered into the\n\nsole care and custody of the guardian nominated in the estate\n\nplanning documents of the intended parents. If no such guardian\n\nwill accept or is fit to accept the sole care and custody of the\n\nchild, or if no valid estate planning documents of the intended\n\nparents are then in effect, the child shall be delivered into the\n\nsole care and custody of a guardian designated by the court as\n\nprovided by Oklahoma law, and in such instances nothing in the\n\nOklahoma Gestational Agreement Act shall prohibit a gestational\n\ncarrier or gestational spouse from being designated by the court as\n\nthe child's guardian.\n\nB. Any child conceived by assisted reproduction and pursuant to\n\nthe terms of a validated gestational agreement shall have all\n\ntestamentary and inheritance rights from the intended parents and\n\nshall have no testamentary or inheritance rights from the\n\ngestational carrier or any spouse of the gestational carrier if she\n\nis married. The intended parents shall have testamentary and\n\ninheritance rights from the resulting child as parents, and the\n\ngestational carrier and any spouse of the gestational carrier if she\n\nis married shall have no testamentary or inheritance rights from the\n\nresulting child as parents.","path":["OK Code","Title 10"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os10.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"b9c05221fe08615bb3fb9adcf6e5b781743f1bdd53198b53816b04ff0c6b57ac","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-10-10-557.20","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-10-10-557.22"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}