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10 OK Stat § 10-557.7 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 10. Children|§10-557.7. Validated agreement required prior to transfer of gametes or embryos.

|A. A gestational agreement must be validated as provided by the Oklahoma Gestational Agreement Act prior to the transfer of gametes or embryos to the gestational carrier for the purpose of conception or implantation under a gestational carrier arrangement. |B. Nothing in this act shall prohibit any of the following, undertaken in compliance with applicable law, even though a gestational agreement is not yet validated:1. The gestational carrier from undertaking a medical or hormonal regimen designed to increase the likelihood of conception or implantation;2. One or more intended parents or one or more donors from undertaking a medical or hormonal regimen designed to aid in the production or vitality of gametes;3. The acquisition, retrieval, collection, creation, growth, testing or storage of gametes from one or more intended parents or one or more donors; or4. The acquisition, retrieval, collection, creation, growth, testing or storage of embryos derived from the gametes of one or more intended parents or one or more donors.Added by Laws 2019, c. 433, § 8, emerg. eff. May 23, 2019.
10 OK Stat § 10-557.8 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 10. Children|§10-557.8. Limited enforceability of an unvalidated agreement.

|A. A gestational agreement that is not validated as provided by the Oklahoma Gestational Agreement Act is unenforceable except to the extent expressly provided by this act. |B. The parent-child relationship for a child born as a result of an assisted reproduction procedure under a gestational agreement that is not validated as provided by this act is determined as otherwise provided by Oklahoma law.C. A gestational agreement that has not been validated shall nonetheless be enforceable to the extent it requires any party under such gestational agreement to pay for or to reimburse any other party for any medical, legal or travel expenses incurred pursuant to the gestational agreement.Added by Laws 2019, c. 433, § 9, emerg. eff. May 23, 2019.
10 OK Stat § 10-557.9 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 10. Children|§10-557.9. Procedure to obtain court validation.

|The following shall be the procedure to request that the court validate a gestational agreement: |1. Any one or more of the parties to a gestational agreement shall file a petition to validate the gestational agreement in a district court having jurisdiction as provided by the Oklahoma Gestational Agreement Act;2. A petition to validate the gestational agreement shall, at a minimum, provide:a.the names and current addresses, if known, of each party to the gestational agreement,b.allegations setting forth the satisfaction of this act's requirements for a gestational agreement and the parties thereto,c.if any of the parties to a gestational agreement have not joined the petition, the identity of such parties and, if known, the reasons such parties have not joined the petition,d.whether or not any assisted reproduction procedures have taken place as part of the gestational carrier arrangement and, if so, the date of each such procedure and whether such procedures have resulted in pregnancy of the gestational carrier, ande.a request that the court validate the gestational agreement, as well as a request setting forth any additional relief sought in connection with the validation of the gestational agreement;3. A complete, unredacted copy of the gestational agreement must be attached to the petition;4. The petitioner shall attach affidavits, declarations, statements, other evidence or any combination thereof to the petition to support the allegations in the petition regarding the satisfaction of the requirements of this act and to aid the court in its determination of whether the requirements to validate the gestational agreement have been met; and5. Any party not joining the petition to validate shall be served with a copy of the petition to validate and a summons in the same manner as in civil cases. After being so duly served, the nonjoining party shall answer and respond to the petition to validate within ten (10) days and shall provide allegations and evidence to aid the court in its determination of whether the requirements to validate the gestational agreement have been met. The failure of any nonjoining party to answer or otherwise respond after being duly served shall not prevent the court from validating a gestational agreement if the requirements of this act are otherwise satisfied.Added by Laws 2019, c. 433, § 10, emerg. eff. May 23, 2019.
10 OK Stat § 10-557.11 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 10. Children|§10-557.11. Rights of child – Parent-child relationship.

|A. Upon the validation by the court of a gestational agreement conforming with the requirements of the Oklahoma Gestational Agreement Act, any child born as a result of an assisted reproduction procedure to a gestational carrier under the gestational agreement shall be considered at law in all respects the same as a naturally conceived legitimate child of the intended parents. The parent-child relationship shall exist solely between such intended parents and such child regardless of the fact that the gestational carrier gave birth to the child or that the spouse of the gestational carrier is or was married to the gestational carrier at or before the time of such birth. The gestational carrier and any spouse of the gestational carrier if she is married shall have no parental rights or obligations with respect to such child. |B. A person acting in the capacity of a donor shall not be a parent of a child conceived as a result of assisted reproduction under a gestational carrier arrangement and shall have no rights or obligations with respect to such child.Added by Laws 2019, c. 433, § 12, emerg. eff. May 23, 2019.
10 OK Stat § 10-557.12 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 10. Children|§10-557.12. Notice of birth to be filed with court – Court order.

|A. Upon the birth of a child to a gestational carrier under a validated gestational agreement, the intended parents shall file a notice of the birth with the court not later than twenty-one (21) days after the birth occurs. |B. Upon receiving notice of the birth, the court shall render an order that:1. Confirms that the intended parents are the child's parents;2. If necessary, requires the gestational carrier and any spouse of the gestational carrier if she is married to surrender the child to the intended parents; and3. If necessary, requires the state registrar of vital statistics to issue a birth certificate naming the intended parents as the child's sole parents.C. If the intended parents fail to file the notice required by subsection A of this section, the gestational carrier or an appropriate state agency may file the notice required by that subsection. On a showing that an order validating the gestational agreement was rendered in accordance with the Oklahoma Gestational Agreement Act, the court shall order that the intended parents are the child's parents and are financially responsible for the child.D. If a person alleges that a child born to a gestational carrier:1. Did not result from assisted reproduction; or2. Is a genetic child of the gestational carrier or the gestational spouse, such that either the gestational carrier or the gestational spouse made a genetic contribution to any gamete from which the child was conceived or the embryo from which the child was grown,the court shall order that scientifically accepted parentage testing in compliance with Oklahoma law be conducted to determine the child's parentage. If the court determines that any of the allegations in paragraph 1 or 2 of this subsection are true, the Oklahoma Gestational Agreement Act shall not apply and the parentage, rights and obligations of the parties and the child shall be determined as otherwise provided by Oklahoma law. Any action related to such allegations may only be brought within one hundred eighty (180) days after the birth of the child and not afterward. The preceding sentence shall be interpreted as a statute of repose and not as a statute of limitations.Added by Laws 2019, c. 433, § 13, emerg. eff. May 23, 2019.
10 OK Stat § 10-557.13 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 10. Children|§10-557.13. Amendments to agreement must be validated.

|A. If the parties to a validated gestational agreement desire to amend it, the amended gestational agreement must be validated to be enforceable. |B. To validate amendments to a previously validated gestational agreement, an amended petition must be filed in the same cause as the petition under which the gestational agreement was originally validated. The amended petition must identify the amendments the parties seek to make to the gestational agreement, and said parties must attach a copy of the amended gestational agreement.C. The court shall apply the same requirements and utilize the same procedures in determining whether to validate the amended gestational agreement as are used in determining whether to validate any other gestational agreement.D. Upon validation of the amended gestational agreement, the amended gestational agreement shall supersede any earlier versions of the gestational agreement, and the earlier versions of the gestational agreement shall be of no further force or effect.E. A validated gestational agreement may not be amended to change the identity of the gestational carrier, the gestational spouse, if applicable, or any intended parent. In such instances, the validated gestational agreement must be terminated in compliance with the Oklahoma Gestational Agreement Act, and the gestational agreement with the new parties must be validated in a separate action.F. Nothing in this section shall prevent a gestational agreement that has not been previously validated from being amended as to any matter or term by agreement of the parties. Any such amended gestational agreement must still be validated in compliance with this act in order for it be enforceable.Added by Laws 2019, c. 433, § 14, emerg. eff. May 23, 2019.
10 OK Stat § 10-557.15 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 10. Children|§10-557.15. Proceedings governed by Code of Civil Procedure - Confidentiality.

|Unless otherwise provided by the Oklahoma Gestational Agreement Act, any proceedings conducted pursuant to this act will be governed by the Code of Civil Procedure of the State of Oklahoma. All such proceedings, any pleadings, motions, documents or records associated therewith and the identities of the parties to a gestational agreement are all to be kept confidential, and any such proceedings shall be held in closed court without the admittance of any person other than interested parties and their counsel. It is the intent of this section that the same standards of confidentiality, inspection and disclosure applied to cases of adoption in this state shall apply to the proceedings and papers related to gestational agreements under this act. |Added by Laws 2019, c. 433, § 16, emerg. eff. May 23, 2019.
10 OK Stat § 10-557.16 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 10. Children|§10-557.16. Venue and jurisdiction.

|Venue and jurisdiction for all matters arising out of or related to a gestational agreement shall lie only in the district court of the county where the gestational carrier resided at the time the gestational agreement was entered into or in the district courts of Tulsa County or Oklahoma County. Upon the filing of a petition to validate gestational agreement, and regardless of any change in residency of the gestational carrier, the court in which such petition was properly filed shall have continuing and exclusive jurisdiction over all matters arising out of or related to the gestational agreement until the date a child born to the gestational carrier during the period covered by the gestational agreement reaches one hundred eighty (180) days of age. |Added by Laws 2019, c. 433, § 17, emerg. eff. May 23, 2019.
10 OK Stat § 10-557.17 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 10. Children|§10-557.17. Compensation to gestational carrier.

|A. A gestational carrier may receive reimbursement for expenses and economic losses resulting from participation in the gestational carrier arrangement contemplated by a gestational agreement. |B. A gestational carrier may be paid a reasonable compensation for carrying a child pursuant to a gestational agreement. The compensation, if any, paid to a gestational carrier must be negotiated in good faith between the parties; the amount of such compensation must be set forth in the gestational agreement; and the compensation may in no manner be conditioned upon the purported quality or any genome-related traits of the sperm, eggs, gametes, embryos or resulting child; provided, that nothing in this section prohibits compensation that is conditioned on the number of embryos implanted, the number of assisted reproduction procedures undertaken for the gestational carrier to become pregnant, the number of children with which the gestational carrier becomes pregnant or the duration of the pregnancy.Added by Laws 2019, c. 433, § 18, emerg. eff. May 23, 2019.
10 OK Stat § 10-557.18 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 10. Children|§10-557.18. Donors may be parties to the agreement.

|A. Any one or more donors that will be supplying any gametes or embryos in connection with a gestational carrier arrangement may be, but are not required to be, a party to the gestational agreement, and any consents required of such donor or such donor's physician by Oklahoma law may be incorporated into the gestational agreement. |B. If one or more donors will be supplying any gametes or embryos in connection with a gestational carrier arrangement, any consents otherwise required by Oklahoma law to be filed with a court in connection with such donation may be filed with the court as part of the petition to validate gestational agreement, regardless of whether or not such consents are part of the gestational agreement. Filing such consents with the petition to validate shall be deemed to be compliance with any filing requirements for such consents otherwise required by Oklahoma law, including the provisions of Sections 552 through 556, inclusive, of Title 10 of the Oklahoma Statutes. If such consents are filed with the court as part of the petition to validate, then validation of the gestational agreement by the court shall satisfy any requirements otherwise set forth in Oklahoma law for a judge's approval, execution or acknowledgment of such consents.C. This act shall not affect any other law regarding the allowance or prohibition of compensation paid to any donor for that donor's contribution of gametes or embryos.Added by Laws 2019, c. 433, § 19, emerg. eff. May 23, 2019.
10 OK Stat § 10-557.19 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 10. Children|§10-557.19. Gametes or embryos of the gestational carrier or gestational spouse.

|No gamete or embryo to which the gestational carrier or the gestational spouse has contributed any genetic material may be used in the assisted reproduction procedure set forth in a gestational agreement covered by the Oklahoma Gestational Agreement Act. Any agreement which calls for the use of a gamete or embryo to which the gestational carrier or gestational spouse has contributed genetic material falls outside the applicability of this act. |Added by Laws 2019, c. 433, § 20, emerg. eff. May 23, 2019.
10 OK Stat § 10-557.20 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 10. Children|§10-557.20. Parents to be listed on certificate of birth.

|Upon the birth of a child contemplated by a validated gestational agreement, the intended parents under such validated gestational agreement shall be listed as the parents on the child's certificate of birth that is to be filed with the state registrar of vital statistics as provided by Oklahoma law, and neither the gestational carrier nor any spouse of the gestational carrier if she is married shall be listed on said certificate of birth. |Added by Laws 2019, c. 433, § 21, emerg. eff. May 23, 2019.
10 OK Stat § 10-557.21 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 10. Children|§10-557.21. Death of intended parent prior to birth of child – Testamentary and inheritance rights.

|A. In the event that an intended parent predeceases the birth of a child contemplated by a validated gestational agreement, the terms and conditions of the gestational agreement shall remain in full force and effect, and upon birth the resulting child shall be delivered into the sole care and custody of the surviving intended parent, if an intended parent so survives. If there are no surviving intended parents, the child shall be delivered into the sole care and custody of the guardian nominated in the estate planning documents of the intended parents. If no such guardian will accept or is fit to accept the sole care and custody of the child, or if no valid estate planning documents of the intended parents are then in effect, the child shall be delivered into the sole care and custody of a guardian designated by the court as provided by Oklahoma law, and in such instances nothing in the Oklahoma Gestational Agreement Act shall prohibit a gestational carrier or gestational spouse from being designated by the court as the child's guardian. |B. Any child conceived by assisted reproduction and pursuant to the terms of a validated gestational agreement shall have all testamentary and inheritance rights from the intended parents and shall have no testamentary or inheritance rights from the gestational carrier or any spouse of the gestational carrier if she is married. The intended parents shall have testamentary and inheritance rights from the resulting child as parents, and the gestational carrier and any spouse of the gestational carrier if she is married shall have no testamentary or inheritance rights from the resulting child as parents.Added by Laws 2019, c. 433, § 22, emerg. eff. May 23, 2019.
10 OK Stat § 10-557.22 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 10. Children|§10-557.22. Marriage or divorce of a gestational carrier.

|A. The marriage of a gestational carrier after she enters into a gestational agreement does not affect the gestational agreement. In such instances, the consent of the person who became the spouse of the gestational carrier after the gestational carrier entered into the gestational agreement is not required in order for the court to validate the gestational agreement, and such person need not be party to the validation proceedings. The spouse of the gestational carrier in such instances shall not be presumed to be the parent of any resulting child. |B. The divorce or separation of the gestational carrier and any spouse of the gestational carrier shall not affect the validation or enforceability of such gestational agreement or the ability of the court to validate such gestational agreement that otherwise complies with this act.Added by Laws 2019, c. 433, § 23, emerg. eff. May 23, 2019.
10 OK Stat § 10-557.23 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 10. Children|§10-557.23. Laboratory or clinical error.

|A. If a gestational agreement has been validated and if, because of a laboratory error or clinical error, the resulting child under such gestational agreement is not genetically related to one or more of the intended parents or one or more of the donors who donated to the intended parent or parents and if, in the absence of such error, the child should have been so genetically related, then the intended parents under the gestational agreement shall nonetheless be considered the parents of the child, unless a determination to the contrary is made by a court of competent jurisdiction in an action which may only be brought by one or more genetic parents of the resulting child within one hundred eighty (180) days after the birth of the child. |B. Nothing in the Oklahoma Gestational Agreement Act shall create, affect or diminish any cause of action that a person may have under Oklahoma law for a laboratory error or clinical error occurring as part of an assisted reproduction procedure.Added by Laws 2019, c. 433, § 24, emerg. eff. May 23, 2019.
10 OK Stat § 10-557.24 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 10. Children|§10-557.24. Breach of agreement.

|A. This section shall govern the breach of validated gestational agreements and any gestational agreements that have not been validated, but only to the extent those nonvalidated gestational agreements are otherwise enforceable under the Oklahoma Gestational Agreement Act. |B. In the event of a breach of a gestational agreement or noncompliance with the requirements of this act, the court shall determine the respective rights and obligations of the parties to the gestational agreement based solely on the evidence of the original intent of the parties and the provisions of this act.C. Except as otherwise provided by this act or an express term of the gestational agreement, the gestational carrier, the gestational spouse and any intended parent shall be entitled to any remedy available at law or equity for breach of the gestational agreement or noncompliance with any requirement of this act.D. Notwithstanding any breach of the gestational agreement, the remedy of specific performance shall not be available to the extent the ordering of such remedy would require the gestational carrier or any other party to be impregnated or undergo an assisted reproduction procedure.E. The breach of the gestational agreement by any intended parent does not relieve the intended parents of the obligation to support a child born pursuant to the gestational agreement.F. Unless otherwise provided by the gestational agreement, the court in any action for the alleged breach or the enforcement of a gestational agreement shall award costs, attorney fees and expert fees to the prevailing party.Added by Laws 2019, c. 433, § 25, emerg. eff. May 23, 2019.
10 OK Stat § 10-557.25 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 10. Children|§10-557.25. Application with other laws.

|Except as otherwise expressly provided by the Oklahoma Gestational Agreement Act, all other laws regarding parentage and the determination thereof remain in full force and effect. |Added by Laws 2019, c. 433, § 26, emerg. eff. May 23, 2019.