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Surrogacy Agreement • February 19th, 2020

• Contract Type
  Surrogacy Agreement
• Filed
  February 19th, 2020

Surrogacy Agreements*A “Cheat Sheet” for Surrogates**February, 2020 Prepared byELISE SCHOPPER-BRIGEL A. WHO ARE THE PARTIES? In any Agreement, the parties are always identified at the beginning. According to the law, every Surrogacy or Gestational Carrier Agreement (GCA) has two sets of parties, theSurrogate or Gestational Carrier (GC) and the Intended Parent(s) (“IPs”), legally defined inBritish Columbia and, generally, in other jurisdictions, as follows: i)“Intended Parent” or “Intended Parents” means a person who intends, or two persons who are married or in a “marriage-like” relationship who intend, to be a parent of a child and, for that purpose; and, ii)the Surrogate or Gestational Carrier who will be the birth mother of a child conceived through assisted reproduction, regardless of whether that person’s or those persons’ human reproductive material was used in the child’s conception, unless the Surrogate lives in a province that requires a genetic link for the IPs, for ex., No