parental order

16:22 May 1, 2021 

The UK legal solution for resolving parenthood in surrogacy cases is a parental order. This is a court order which makes the intended parent or parents the legal parents of the child and permanently extinguishes the parenthood of the surrogate and her spouse. Once a parental order is made, the birth will be re-registered to record the intended parent/s as the legal parent/s, and a new birth certificate will be issued. The original birth certificate will be sealed as part of the Parental Order Register and will be accessible only to the child once he or she is over 18 (in a similar way to an adopted child).