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What Happens If the Surrogate Delivers Early? How Surrogacy Lawyers Prepare for Early Births
A surrogate delivering early doesn't have to turn into a legal scramble. Learn when to notify your attorney at each stage of the surrogacy journey, from confirming the pregnancy to a change in delivery date, so your prebirth order and parentage judgment are ready before the baby arrives, even if that's sooner than planned.

Ralph M. Tsong
2 days ago7 min read


Trump’s New Executive Orders on Citizenship: What Does It Mean for Surrogacy?
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

Ralph M. Tsong
Aug 66 min read


Why You Shouldn’t Rely on AI to Review Your Contract
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

Ralph M. Tsong
Jul 2412 min read
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