Relationship Between the Family and the State

Question 1

Adoption

Answer 1

Adoption is a statutory legal action in which the previous parent-child relationship is terminated, and a new parent-child relationship is established.

Question 2

Legal Effects of Adoption

Answer 2

The adoptive parents have all the rights and responsibilities that the biological parents would possess (e.g., support, custody, visitation, and inheritance), and the adopted child has all the rights and responsibilities that a biological child would possess (e.g., intestate rights in the adoptive parents’ estate).

Question 3

Assisted Reproduction

Answer 3

“Assisted reproduction” is implanting an embryo or fertilizing a woman’s egg with a man’s sperm without sexual intercourse

Question 4

Gestational (Surrogacy) Agreement

Answer 4

A gestational agreement (sometimes used interchangeably with the term “surrogacy”) is one in which a woman, known as the gestational mother or surrogate, agrees to carry a pregnancy, either through artificial insemination or by surgical implantation of a fertilized embryo, as a substitute for intended parents who cannot conceive.

Question 5

Frozen Embryo

Answer 5

A “frozen embryo” is the result of in vitro fertilization that is cryogenically preserved