Your surrogacy journey is incomplete without these people
A gestational-surrogacy journey involves several people with different responsibilities. No agency is a one-stop replacement for independent medical, legal, mental-health, insurance, or financial professionals.
Core roles
- Gestational carrier and intended parents: Make their own informed decisions, communicate preferences, and work through the agreed process.
- Fertility clinic and licensed clinicians: Evaluate medical information, determine clearance, prescribe treatment, perform procedures, and explain clinical risks and outcomes.
- Prenatal care team: Directs pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum medical care.
- Independent reproductive attorneys: Advise their own clients, review the agreement, and direct jurisdiction-specific parentage work.
- Qualified mental-health professional: Conducts an evaluation or counseling when engaged; an assessment informs professional judgment and does not guarantee readiness.
- Insurance, escrow, tax, and immigration professionals: Own decisions within their respective fields.
- Agency: Coordinates intake, matching, schedules, authorized records, communication, and professional handoffs.
Ask each participant to state what they decide, what they only coordinate, and which current document supports the next step. Patriot Conceptions coordinates the agency process; it does not establish parentage, provide treatment, choose the “best” professional, or guarantee that a journey ends with a birth.
Surrogacy is a legal and medical-adjacent topic. This article is for informational purposes only and is not legal or medical advice.
Reviewed by Patriot Conceptions Editorial Team. Last reviewed Oct 26, 2020.
Your surrogacy journey is incomplete without these people
A gestational-surrogacy journey involves several people with different responsibilities. No agency is a one-stop replacement for independent medical, legal, mental-health, insurance, or financial professionals.
Core roles
- Gestational carrier and intended parents: Make their own informed decisions, communicate preferences, and work through the agreed process.
- Fertility clinic and licensed clinicians: Evaluate medical information, determine clearance, prescribe treatment, perform procedures, and explain clinical risks and outcomes.
- Prenatal care team: Directs pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum medical care.
- Independent reproductive attorneys: Advise their own clients, review the agreement, and direct jurisdiction-specific parentage work.
- Qualified mental-health professional: Conducts an evaluation or counseling when engaged; an assessment informs professional judgment and does not guarantee readiness.
- Insurance, escrow, tax, and immigration professionals: Own decisions within their respective fields.
- Agency: Coordinates intake, matching, schedules, authorized records, communication, and professional handoffs.
Ask each participant to state what they decide, what they only coordinate, and which current document supports the next step. Patriot Conceptions coordinates the agency process; it does not establish parentage, provide treatment, choose the “best” professional, or guarantee that a journey ends with a birth.
For your own case, confirm legal and medical details with your attorney and clinic.
Reviewed by Patriot Conceptions Editorial Team. Last reviewed Oct 26, 2020.