Surrogacy

[firstclassx]

Hi, can't really find any suitable forum section, feel free to move:

 

Anybody know what the score is with surrogacy in this specific set of circumstances:

 

• Male naturally or otherwise, conceives with surrogate female
  
• Male is single and not in any relationship
  
• Surrogate female to give male the child immediately after birth
  
• Female and male will jointly register child on birth certificate and will remain in possession of male.
  
• Female then leaves the scene completely.
  
• Male then lives happily ever after with his child.
  

 

So male (father) will genetically be related to child, and will be on birth certificate. Female (also genetic, obviously), registers birth jointly, naming father, before disappearing.

 

1) Is this legal?

2) Does the father subsequently have full parental responsibility for the child?

 

I am aware that the (female) mother could reappear at some stage in the future, but for the purpose of this situation, that is assured not to happen.

 

Moral/ethics aside, can anyone advise? Would the situation essentially be the same as a couple with a child splitting and living with the father?

[honeybee13]

Hi. Sorry you haven't had any replies so far.

 

I found this on the government website. The first statement is:

 

If you use a surrogate they will be the legal mother of any child they carry.

 

https://www.gov.uk/legal-rights-when-using-surrogates-and-donors/overview