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By Angela Hallier, Esq.
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Q Are surrogate parenting contracts allowed in the State of Arizona?

A No. Arizona law prohibits any person from entering into, inducing, arranging, procuring or otherwise assisting in the formation of a surrogate parenting contract. A surrogate parenting contract is defined as any kind of agreement or arrangement in which a woman agrees to the implantation of an embryo not related to that woman, or agrees to conceive a child through natural or artificial insemination, and to voluntarily relinquish her parental rights to that child. Further, the legal mother of a child born as a result of a surrogate parenting contract is entitled to custody of the child, and if that mother is married, her husband is presumed to be the legal father of the child (although such presumption is rebuttable in Arizona)

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