Family Court Act § 581-705 · Part 7. Miscellaneous Provisions
Adjudication
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§ 581-705. Adjudication. (a) A court adjudicating the parentage of a child conceived through assisted reproduction or adjudicating the enforceability of an embryo disposition agreement may apply section 581-202 and part three of this article retroactively.
(b) The participants in a surrogacy agreement that involved the payment of compensation prior to February fifteenth, two thousand twenty-one shall not be eligible to receive a judgment of parentage pursuant to section 581-203 or section 581-406 of this article, but shall be entitled to seek a judgment of parentage pursuant to section 581-407 of this article.
(c) This article shall apply retroactively to uncompensated surrogacy agreements entered into prior to February fifteenth, two thousand twenty-one, with regard to a court adjudication the parentage of a child.
(d) Surrogacy agreements that were executed on or after February fifteenth, two thousand twenty-one, but before the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand twenty-four that added this subdivision that were in compliance with this article before it was amended by the chapter of the laws of two thousand twenty-four that added this subdivision shall be deemed a compliant surrogacy agreement pursuant to section 581-406 of this article regardless of any deviations from the current provisions of this article.
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