Intended parent’s name excluded from the child’s born-by-surrogacy birth certificate – Role of the Mayor and the Ministry of the Interior in domestic dispute over the registration of a foreign court order

Surrogacy and parental rights, adoption is the legal instrument for the intended parent in same-sex couples

The prohibition of surrogacy hampers the recognition of the foreign order establishing the filiation of the child born abroad - Surrogacy: the foreign order naming the intended parent as the child's parent cannot be transcribed in Italy

The applicants, a married couple and their daughter born in Ukraine via gestational surrogacy, faced a refusal by the French Court of Appeal in 2017 to fully register the Ukrainian birth certificate, listing only the legal father-child relationship - The Court held that the intended mother could establish a legal relationship through adoption, not directly through the foreign birth certificate, in accordance with French law which does not permit gestational surrogacy - The Court found this approach did not violate the child's rights, as the adoption process provided an effective mechanism f