Intended Parents who use the services of a Gestational Carrier to carry their child must obtain a court order determining legal parentage for the child. The order also directs the hospital and/or state department of vital records to place the Intended Parents names on the birth certificate of the child that the Gestational Carrier delivers.

If parents do not obtain an order, in most cases, the parents will then be forced to adopt the child. The Gestational Carrier’s name will be placed on the birth certificate as a parent of the child, when the child is born.

The steps to obtain a birth order should begin when your Gestational Carrier is three months pregnant to ensure that there is enough time to obtain a birth order before the child is born. Melissa has obtained and helped facilitate birth orders in numerous states including but not limited to New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Maine.

Melissa first achieved national fame and recognition when she won a landmark case at the Massachusetts State Supreme Court and a New York State Supreme Court case involving parentage orders. Attorney Brisman also won a landmark case in New Jersey involving parentage orders.

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