Michigan Laws 722.1905 – Termination of surrogacy agreement
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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 722.1905
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
- Intended parent: means an individual, married or unmarried, who manifests an intent to be legally bound as a parent of a child conceived by assisted reproduction or by assisted reproduction under a surrogacy agreement. See Michigan Laws 722.1703
- Surrogacy agreement: means an agreement between 1 or more intended parents and a surrogate in which the surrogate agrees to become pregnant by assisted reproduction and that provides that each intended parent is a parent of a child conceived under the agreement. See Michigan Laws 722.1703
- Surrogate: means an individual who is not an intended parent and who agrees to become pregnant through assisted reproduction under a surrogacy agreement. See Michigan Laws 722.1703
(1) A party to a surrogacy agreement may terminate the agreement at any time before a gamete or an embryo transfer by giving notice of termination in a record to all other parties. If a gamete or an embryo transfer does not result in a pregnancy, a party may terminate the agreement at any time before a subsequent gamete or embryo transfer.
(2) Unless a surrogacy agreement provides otherwise, on termination of the agreement under subsection (1), the parties are released from the agreement, except that each intended parent remains responsible for expenses that are reimbursable under the agreement and incurred by the surrogate through the date of termination of the surrogacy agreement.
(3) Unless there is fraud, a party is not liable to any other party for a penalty or liquidated damages for terminating a surrogacy agreement under this section.