{"data":{"id":"us-vt/15c-v.s.a.-704","jurisdiction":"us-vt","citation":"15C V.S.A. § 704","heading":"Consent to assisted reproduction","body":"(a) A person who intends to be a parent of a child born through assisted reproduction shall consent to the use of assisted reproduction to conceive a child with the intent to parent the child:\n(1) in a record, signed before, on, or after the birth of the child by each intended parent; or\n(2) in an oral agreement entered into before conception by each intended parent.\n(b) In the absence of evidence pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, a court may adjudicate a person as the parent of a child if it finds by a preponderance of the evidence that the person resided with the child after birth and undertook to develop a parental relationship with the child.","path":["Title 15C: Parentage Proceedings","Chapter 007: Parentage by Assisted Reproduction"],"source_url":"https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/15C/007/00704","current_through":"2025 session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T17:17:00Z","sha256":"01e4c05122e20216e2dc9b7d55ecda1d3ac3d23d2a8f04355c811384dacc734b","source_id":"us-vt","stale":false,"prev":"us-vt/15c-v.s.a.-703","next":"us-vt/15c-v.s.a.-705"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}