Pannone Family Blog
On 1st September 2009 section 54 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 comes into force. This section allows a married couple, two civil partners, or two people living as partners in an enduring family relationship (who are not closely related) to make an application to the court for a parental order. A parental order would provide for a child to be treated in law as the child of the two applicants, where that child is born as a result of the placing of an embryo, or sperm and eggs, in another woman by way of artificial insemination.
