Surrogacy Due Diligence

Cross-border surrogacy costs US$50,000 to US$250,000. The contract runs 20-50 pages in two languages, and it almost always says the language you cannot read is the one that governs. The clinic that makes the embryo often does not deliver the baby. The NICU is frequently a third company you have no contract with. And the hardest part is not the birth — it is proving, to your own government, that the child is yours and may come home. Intended parents make this decision from marketing material, at the most emotionally compromised moment of their lives, against a market where the sales function is far more developed than the disclosure function. Nobody reads the contract properly. It arrives in a batch of eight files at 11pm, in the middle of a process they have already emotionally committed to. This SKILL does - Eligibility screening that tells same-sex and single intended parents which destinations are legally closed to them — in week one, not week ten - A 40-point contract checklist and a bilingual comparison method that catches clauses missing from the governing text - Cost normalisation that makes incomparable quotes comparable - A tested Excel Gantt generator, every date driven off one cell - Enquiry templates for providers, lawyers, hospitals and consulates - Built from a real dossier, not from a content brief