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SECTION 581-705
Adjudication
Family Court Act (FCT) CHAPTER 686, ARTICLE 5-C, PART 7
§ 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-two.

(d) Surrogacy agreements that were executed on or after February
fifteenth, two thousand twenty-three, 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.