Bath law firm Mogers Drewett’s family team has launched a service dealing with surrogacy, fertility and adoption in response to the growing need for specialist legal advice in this fast-moving area.
The service will offer advice on legal planning in surrogacy including international surrogacy, parental orders, pre-conception agreements, donor co-parenting agreements, donor disputes, embryo storage and ownership disputes as well as adoption.
The service will be spearheaded by Anne-Marie Hamer, pictured, who joined the family team in February and specialises in surrogacy and fertility law.
Mogers Drewett partner and head of the family team Rebecca Silcock said: “As surrogacy becomes a more mainstream pathway to parenthood we have gradually seen an increase in inquiries from people who are looking for advice on the legal planning associated with surrogacy arrangements such as acquiring parental rights and bringing children who are born abroad back into the UK.
“Fertility treatment and embryo storage is also a very complex area of law and can be emotionally challenging but one we can provide sensitive and supportive advice on.”
Anne-Marie Hamer is based in Mogers Drewett’s Sherborne office. The firm also has offices in Wells and Frome.
