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Michigan surrogacy laws and planning route

Explore surrogacy guidance for Michigan, find local professionals, and prepare questions for your attorney and care team.

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Reviewed by Patriot Conceptions Legal Review Team, Legal content review team on October 8, 2025.

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Michigan
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Legal Status Gestational surrogacy permitted under the Assisted Reproduction and Surrogacy Parentage Act (effective April 2, 2025).
Pre-Birth Orders Available
Compensated Surrogacy Permitted
Residency Requirement Not Required
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What to confirm next

Before acting on Michigan surrogacy law

Use this page to decide who should own the next step — your attorney, clinic, or coordinator.

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What must counsel confirm?

Confirm the Michigan parentage path, compensation language, venue or residency assumptions, and required signatures before anyone treats a match as ready.

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Clinic and screening team
What must the clinic confirm?

Confirm medical clearance, transfer timing, records, monitoring logistics, psychological review, and any clinic-specific requirements before calendars are locked.

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Patriot coordination
What should be routed next?

Map state fit, provider handoffs, escrow and insurance timing, travel burden, and whether the Michigan route needs a backup jurisdiction.

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Before you proceed
✓ Review Michigan parentage order requirements with your attorney.
✓ Confirm your gestational carrier agreement complies with current statutes.
✓ Align medical clinic milestones with legal filing timelines to prevent delays.
Legal summary

The Michigan law, section by section

Category

Surrogacy-Friendly

Gestational Surrogacy

Fully legal and enforceable under the Assisted Reproduction and Surrogacy Parentage Act (ARSPA), effective April 1, 2025.

Traditional Surrogacy

Permitted under Michigan law. The ARSPA includes provisions for both traditional and gestational surrogacy.

Pre-Birth Parentage Orders

Yes, courts grant pre-birth parentage orders. Both intended parents can be declared legal parents if at least one is genetically related to the child. No hearing is required, and the order becomes effective upon the child’s birth.

Parent Eligibility

Married heterosexual couples, unmarried heterosexual couples, same-sex couples, and single parents can all obtain pre-birth orders with or without genetic connection.

Commercial Surrogacy

Allowed; compensated arrangements are permitted.

Same-Sex Parents

Both parents can be named on the birth certificate.

Birth Certificate Timing

Issued promptly post-birth, listing both intended parents

Out-of-State Orders

Recognized if domesticated by a Michigan court.

Overall

Michigan is a surrogacy-friendly state with clear legal pathways for all types of intended parents.

Primary source
Michigan source used for this summary

This summary is based on the primary source listed for Michigan. Confirm your situation with a reproductive attorney licensed in that state.

Source
Michigan Legislature: Assisted Reproduction and Surrogacy Parentage Act
Legislation · Accessed May 31, 2026
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Clinic layer

Fertility clinics in Michigan

The law sets the parentage route. The clinic sets medical clearance, transfer timing, and monitoring — so both calendars have to be planned together. These are public Atlas profiles, not recommendations.

6 Michigan clinic profiles

Showing 1–6 of 6 published Michigan clinic profiles, ordered by how complete each public record is.

Atlas clinic facts reviewed October 29, 2026. Patriot does not rank or endorse clinics — each profile links to its own public sources and a correction path. Confirm screening, transfer timing, and carrier requirements with the clinic directly.

Funds custody

How escrow works in Michigan

In Michigan, your surrogacy funds are held in a fertility-law firm's attorney trust account (an IOLTA). Patriot never holds your money directly. The firm administers the trust account using software built for that workflow.

Patriot recommends TrustUS, the software your law firm uses to hold your funds. TrustUS runs on top of the firm's IOLTA — not as a separate third-party escrow agent.

✓IOLTA-ready escrow, AES-256 encryption, full audit trail.
✓SOC 2 practices.
✓99.98% receipt match rate, 2-second average payout.
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Patriot has not independently verified TrustUS's compliance attestations; consult your attorney before custodying funds.

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