Cara Ramprakash, Solicitor in the Family team, recently wrote an article for Today’s Family Lawyer which focuses on the decisions divorcing couples have to make if they have decided to freeze embryos and how US and UK law differs in their approaches to such scenarios.
“Unlike some states in the US, frozen embryos are not treated as ‘matrimonial property’ in the UK. Therefore, the family courts cannot make any orders about their division or distribution. If both parties provide consent for them to be used in fertility treatment post-separation, there are likely to be implications in respect of legal parentage and legal obligations for the support of any child.”
Read the full article here: https://todaysfamilylawyer.co.uk/what-happens-to-frozen-embryos-in-a-divorce-in-the-uk/