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On August 6, 2026, President Trump signed two Executive Orders that could affect surrogacy journey for international intended parents. The first, "Ending Birth Tourism," classifies temporary visa travel to give birth as visa misuse, empowering DHS to deny visas, revoke, and bar entry. The second,"Continuing to Protect the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship," directs federal agencies to deny U.S. citizenship documents to children born to foreign national parents where U

Reaching the contract phase is an exciting step in your family-building journey. Opening a 40-page legal document for the first time is a different feeling. Lately we have been receiving client emails full of neatly organized questions that turn out to have come from an AI chatbot, most of them about clauses unrelated to the client's situation. Uploading a draft agreement to a public AI tool carries real confidentiality risk, and the analysis it returns is often confidently w

Four bills in the 119th Congress would reshape surrogacy nationwide, and most do not do what their titles suggest. One is sold as a background-check law but requires no background check, while adding 10 to 20 year mandatory minimums. Another is framed as targeting adversarial nations, yet voids agreements with parents from nearly every country. We break down what each bill actually says, who it would harm, and how to write your representative or senators in about 2 minutes us

Update June 30, 2026: The Supreme Court has now answered the question this article posed. In Trump v. Barbara, the Court ruled 6-3 that birthright citizenship is guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment and that Executive Order 14160 is invalid and cannot be enforced. Chief Justice Roberts wrote the majority opinion, holding that children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and are c

California Senate Bill No. 729 (SB 729) is the Senate Bill that amends Health and Safety Code section 1374.55 and Insurance Code section 10119.6 to expand health insurance coverage to fertility services. It was signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom on September 29th, 2024, and has an effective date of July 1st, 2025. The new law requires certain fully insured health policies to cover the diagnosis and treatment of infertility.