Surrogacy Agreements — the Legal Regime in Georgia
Georgia is one of the jurisdictions where artificial fertilization and surrogacy are directly permitted by the Law on Health Care. This page explains the legal foundations of surrogacy and donor fertilization on the basis of three provisions of that law: the conditions for fertilization with donor sperm, the rules on in vitro fertilization and the transfer of an embryo to a surrogate mother, and the question of parentage of the child born. Every conclusion below rests directly on the text of the law, so you will find what is genuinely regulated — and nothing invented on top of it.
The principle running through this entire regime is the following: upon the birth of the child, the parents are the couple or the single woman whose written consent underpinned the procedure — the donor and the surrogate mother have no right to be recognized as the parent of the born child. This rule is precisely the legal anchor that gives a surrogacy agreement its stability.