Title XII, Public Safety and Welfare

The marriage, partnership, separation, or divorce of any party to a gestational carrier agreement does not affect the validity or the terms of the gestational carrier agreement.

Subject to the provisions of RSA 168-B:15, a child shall be considered a child only of his or her parent or parents and the parent or parents shall be considered the parent or parents of the child, as determined for the purposes of: I. Intestate succession. II. Taking against the…

I. Prior to any embryo transfer pursuant to the gestational carrier arrangement, the intended parent or parents shall make guardianship provisions for the prospective child by amending their existing estate planning documents, or by executing estate planning documents containing …

Noncompliance by the gestational carrier, the gestational carrier's spouse or partner, if any, or by the intended parent or parents occurs when that party breaches a provision of this chapter and/or a provision of the gestational carrier agreement.

Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, in the event of a party's noncompliance with the requirements of this chapter and/or with a provision of the gestational carrier agreement, the court shall determine the respective rights and obligations of the parties, unless the ges…

I. Except as expressly provided in the gestational carrier agreement, the intended parent or parents shall be entitled to all remedies available at law or equity. II. Except as expressly provided in the gestational carrier agreement, the gestational carrier shall be entitled to a…

No action to invalidate a gestational carrier agreement meeting the requirements of this chapter or to challenge the rights of parentage established pursuant to this chapter for a gestational carrier arrangement shall commence once the pregnancy is established.

I. A person is the parent of a child to whom she has given birth, except as otherwise provided in this chapter and if the pregnancy was established pursuant to a gestational carrier arrangement. II. A person is the parent of a child conceived via assisted reproduction if the pers…

The department of health and human services may adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, to carry out its duties under this chapter.

If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of the chapter, which can be given effect without the invalid provisions or applications, and to this end the…

The probate division of the circuit court shall have exclusive jurisdiction over all actions instituted pursuant to this chapter.

If, under the provisions of this chapter, a parent-child relationship is created between 2 persons, the child shall be considered, for all purposes of law, the legitimate child of the parent. In the absence of specific language to the contrary in a statute or instrument, a legiti…

Substantial compliance with the requirements of this chapter is sufficient to allow for a determination of parentage under this chapter.

Neither a gestational carrier nor her spouse or partner, if any, shall be a parent of a child conceived as a result of assisted reproduction and a gestational carrier arrangement.

A donor shall not be a parent of a child conceived as a result of assisted reproduction and a gestational carrier arrangement.

A child conceived as a result of assisted reproduction and a gestational carrier arrangement shall be the child solely of the intended parent or parents. The parental rights of physical custody shall vest with the intended parent or parents immediately upon the birth of the child…

An intended parent of any child resulting from assisted reproduction and a gestational carrier arrangement shall meet each of the following requirements prior to any medical procedures to impregnate the gestational carrier: I. He, she, or they have completed a mental health consu…

Prior to any medical procedures to impregnate the gestational carrier, a woman, intending to be a gestational carrier, shall meet all of the following requirements: I. She is at least 21 years of age. II. She has given birth to at least one child. III. She has completed a physica…