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DADsquared discusses Florida Same Sex Surrogacy laws with Family Law Attorney Marla Neufeld.

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We recently had the great opportunity to chat with Marla Neufeld, a Florida Family Law Attorney doing some great work for our community. With Marla’s personal journey with infertility and use of a gestational surrogate, she was able to take her legal background and combine it with her compassion and understanding of the surrogacy process by helping others start a family using the available third party reproductive technologies and adoption laws in Florida. Marla is honored to represent same sex couples,married couples and individuals in Florida seeking to utilize various reproductive technologies. DADsquared: Can same sex couples use surrogacy in Florida to start a family? With current advances in reproductive technology coupled with the evolving legal landscape in Florida, surrogacy for same sex couples is permissible and Florida does not prohibit egg or sperm donation for same sex couples. There are additional steps required for same sex couples to ensure parental rights