Leading surrogacy solicitors
We are the UK’s leading surrogacy lawyers, a team which has helped create more families through surrogacy, in more countries, than any other UK surrogacy solicitors.
Surrogacy lawyers who live and breathe surrogacy
We are passionate about championing surrogacy, and have spent decades forging creative new paths through UK surrogacy law and winning change for the families we support.
The UK’s leading surrogacy law firm, we offer expert legal advice and legal services for both surrogacy in the UK and, if you are British or live in the UK, international surrogacy.
International surrogacy legal services
If you are building your family through international surrogacy, we can help you manage UK law confidently and smoothly, offering all the UK legal services you need under one roof.
From the UK’s first international surrogacy case in 2008, we are international surrogacy lawyers who have supported more than a thousand families navigating surrogacy overseas.
Surrogacy legal advice
Legal review meetings to understand how UK law fits with the surrogacy process you are following abroad.
Parenthood and parental orders
Advice and legal representation services to help you navigate the UK legal process by which you will become your child’s legal parents.
British nationality and passports
Help with getting your child home and securing his or her British nationality and passport.
Specialist wills
Expert support with wills to protect your family during the surrogacy process in case the worst happens.
With support from Brilliant Beginnings
We also offer a fully-managed US Surrogacy Pathway, working alongside our sibling organisation Brilliant Beginnings and providing integrated UK legal advice throughout.
Brilliant Beginnings also offers personal Surrogacy Consultations for those at an early stage of considering international surrogacy.
What our clients say to us…
Legal services for surrogacy in the UK
If you are building your family through UK surrogacy we can help you navigate the law smoothly and comfortably, from initial planning through to securing your status as your child’s legal parents.
UK surrogacy legal advice
Legal review meetings to help you plan and set things up properly. We can also confirm to your UK fertility clinic that we have advised you.
Parental orders
Advice and legal representation options to help you manage your court application and getting your child’s new birth certificate.
Post-birth limbo issues
Help with birth registration, parental responsibility and any other legal issues that arise before you are your child’s legal parents.
Specialist wills
An easy remote service to create wills to protect you, your surrogate and your child in case the worst happens.
With support from Brilliant Beginnings
We also offer a UK Surrogacy Pathway, as well as a fully-supported Agreement Pathway for those who have already found their surrogate, working alongside our sibling organisation Brilliant Beginnings and providing integrated legal services throughout.
Brilliant Beginnings also offers personal Surrogacy Consultations for those at an early stage of considering surrogacy.
Pieces we’ve written about surrogacy
How we have made a difference to surrogacy
2022
The Ukraine war
We gave emergency help to all the British parents with babies born during the Ukraine war, securing government support, helping bring home 46 babies, and winning a Home Secretary decision to issue special visas to pregnant surrogates.
2020
Emergency measures during the COVID pandemic
We successfully lobbied the UK government to create an emergency passport process for stranded surrogate babies. We also persuaded the HFEA to permit the export of eggs, sperm and embryos overseas for surrogacy.
2019
Ending discrimination against single parents
We won a High Court declaration that surrogacy law’s exclusion of single parents was incompatible with human rights, prompting both a law change to allow single parents to apply for parental orders, and a wider Law Commission review of the law.
2015
Maternity leave for surrogacy
We ran a campaign from 2008 to 2015 and via a Private Members’ Bill in Parliament secured a special form of adoption leave for parents through surrogacy who, until then, had no right to time off work when their child was born.
Considering surrogacy and need more support?
Our sibling organisation, Brilliant Beginnings, is a non-profit surrogacy agency, founded by the NGA Law directors in 2013 to support safe ethical surrogacy.
Brilliant Beginnings offers personal advice consultations as well as managed surrogacy pathways in the UK and USA which include full legal support from NGA Law.
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Browse our Knowledge Centre
Our free online Knowledge Centre contains legal guidance and links to resources you may need
International surrogacy (UK law)
Many parents cross borders for surrogacy. Since the law does not join up internationally, managing...
Surrogacy in the UK (UK law)
It is, and always has been, legal to enter into a surrogacy arrangement in the UK. However, the...
Parental orders (surrogacy law)
The intended UK legal solution for resolving parenthood in surrogacy cases is a parental order....
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