Overview

• The court issued a parental order in March for the couple to become legal guardians of their 14-month-old son born via surrogacy in California.
• Mrs Justice Knowles released her judgment to underscore welfare considerations and guide future overseas surrogacy cases.
• The couple used the husband’s sperm with a donor egg and paid over £151,000 to the surrogate and agency, with £24,635 deemed reasonably incurred.
• The judge warned the pair will likely be in their late eighties when the child reaches adulthood and approved contingency guardianship plans with family friends and a niece.
• Surrogacy Concern and Stop Surrogacy Now UK have urged Parliament to introduce age limits and tighten rules on international surrogacy.