Section 7960 Of Part 7. Surrogacy And Donor Facilitators, Assisted Reproduction Agreements For Gestational Carriers, And Oocyte Donations From California Family Law Code >> Division 12. >> Part 7.
7960
. For purposes of this part, the following terms have the
following meanings:
(a) "Assisted reproduction agreement" has the same meaning as
defined in subdivision (b) of Section 7606.
(b) "Fund management agreement" means the agreement between the
intended parents and the surrogacy or donor facilitator relating to
the fee or other valuable consideration for services rendered or that
will be rendered by the surrogacy or donor facilitator.
(c) "Intended parent" means an individual, married or unmarried,
who manifests the intent to be legally bound as the parent of a child
resulting from assisted reproduction.
(d) "Nonattorney surrogacy or donor facilitator" means a surrogacy
or donor practitioner who is not an attorney in good standing
licensed to practice law in this state.
(e) "Surrogacy or donor facilitator" means a person or
organization that engages in either of the following activities:
(1) Advertising for the purpose of soliciting parties to an
assisted reproduction agreement or for the donation of oocytes for
use by a person other than the provider of the oocytes, or acting as
an intermediary between the parties to an assisted reproduction
agreement or oocyte donation.
(2) Charging a fee or other valuable consideration for services
rendered relating to an assisted reproduction agreement or oocyte
donation.
(f) "Surrogate" means a woman who bears and carries a child for
another through medically assisted reproduction and pursuant to a
written agreement, as set forth in Sections 7606 and 7962. Within the
definition of surrogate are two different and distinct types:
(1) "Traditional surrogate" means a woman who agrees to gestate an
embryo, in which the woman is the gamete donor and the embryo was
created using the sperm of the intended father or a donor arranged by
the intended parent or parents.
(2) "Gestational carrier" means a woman who is not an intended
parent and who agrees to gestate an embryo that is genetically
unrelated to her pursuant to an assisted reproduction agreement.
(g) "Donor" means a woman who provides her oocytes for use by
another for the purpose of assisting the recipient of the oocytes in
having a child or children of her own.