Intro and Attorney Recommendations?

a&c2005

After 3 failed IVF attempts and a pending international adoption that seems to be going nowhere, DH and I finally decided to proceed with DE IVF.  We searched through numerous egg donor databases, and we finally agreed on a donor! She had great results in her prior donation, so we are crossing our fingers that everything works out. 

Now we are in the process of reviewing the agency agreements.  We are working with a California based agency but a donor who lives in Texas.  If you are in Texas and worked with an out of state egg donor agency, which attorney did you work with to review the egg donor agency contract and to draft the agreement with the egg donor? 

liz4paws

We are in Texas and worked with Adam Aseron from Giles, Sayers, and Aseron in Austin for our outofstate embryo donation. He deals with egg donor scenarios all the time and was excellent to work with. He was very quick to draft our agreement and answered questions quickly at all hours of the day. Also, he charged a flat fee instead of hourly rate which was significantly less expensive.

I wish you lots of luck.

reb259

Are you planning to do donor egg or donor embryo?  Unless CA has different laws, an attorney is not required for donor egg.

a&c2005

Thanks for the referral liz4paws!! Good luck to you too!

reb259--we are doing egg donation

chicagobride_07

GL!  We used an agency in Massachusetts.  PP is right- an attorney is optional (at least in my state).  Our agency had agreements pre-drafted which we utilized.  I did have an attorney in our family review (this was not his specialty!) but in the end we had no changes.

We were given referrals to attorneys if we wanted them (one for us, one for donor)- the cost was around $1,100 (which we chose to forgo).

reb259

a&c2005:

Thanks for the referral liz4paws!! Good luck to you too!

reb259--we are doing egg donation

I am pretty sure no attorney is required for egg donor cycles.  I have done one in Atlanta and 2 in TX and never had to...I am also from MI and I have a friend doing donor egg and I am almost 100% sure no attorney required.  I fyou were using donor embryos you would.

a&c2005

Thanks for the advice reb259.  I'm actually an attorney and did my LLM in health law, but reproductive law is not my area of expertise.  Reproductive laws also cover so much of family law, an area that I don't practice.  Luckily for us, Texas has adopted the Uniform Parentage Act so determination of parentage is a more settled issue compared to other states.  I just want to make sure that my husband and I have all the bases covered.

BRSaugust20

Our agency was in MA and we had to have an attorney for both us and our egg donor.  Our clinic wouldn't let us proceed until they got confirmationfrom our agency that we both had signed the donor contract. 

 We used an attorney out of NJ but is admitted to the MA bar. Good luck!!!!