N.Y. Fam. Ct. Act § 581-705
N.Y. Fam. Ct. Act § 581-705 - Adjudication (2026)
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**N.Y. Fam. Ct. Act § 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.