It is my position, therefore, that an adoption is necessary. The California appellate court, however, shot down the argument that the Buzzancas were not parents since there had been no adoption. There are implications from Buzzanca that may apply in Illinois and other states. Because Illinois and most other states have no legislative procedure by which surrogate parents can be declared to be legal parents of a child, adoption is the mode by which intended parents become the legally acknowledged parents of the child. But there is the catch.
All states have adoption laws allowing the adopting parents to pay for medical, hospital, etc.
Buzzanca can be used as authority for the argument that the adoption model, with the adoption model prohibition against payment of money to the birth mother, should not apply to surrogacy, despite the legal reality that an adoption decree is necessary. He is named in Best Lawyers in America. To email Mr.