§ 722.851 Short title
§ 722.853 Definitions
§ 722.855 Surrogate parentage contract as void and unenforceable
§ 722.857 Surrogate parentage contract prohibited; conditions; surrogate parentage contract as felony; penalty
§ 722.859 Surrogate parentage contract for compensation prohibited; surrogate parentage contract for compensation as misdemeanor or felony; penalty
§ 722.861 Custody of child
§ 722.863 Effective date
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Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 722 > Act 199 of 1988 - Surrogate Parenting Act

  • Compensation: means a payment of money, objects, services, or anything else having monetary value except payment of expenses incurred as a result of the pregnancy and the actual medical expenses of a surrogate mother or surrogate carrier. See Michigan Laws 722.853
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Developmental disability: means that term as defined in section 100a of the mental health code, 1974 PA 258, MCL 330. See Michigan Laws 722.853
  • Intellectually disabled: means intellectual disability as that term is defined in section 100b of the mental health code, 1974 PA 258, MCL 330. See Michigan Laws 722.853
  • Mental illness: means that term as defined in section 400 of the mental health code, 1974 PA 258, MCL 330. See Michigan Laws 722.853
  • Participating party: means a biological mother, biological father, surrogate carrier, or the spouse of a biological mother, biological father, or surrogate carrier, if any. See Michigan Laws 722.853
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
  • Surrogate carrier: means the female in whom an embryo is implanted in a surrogate gestation procedure. See Michigan Laws 722.853
  • Surrogate gestation: means the implantation in a female of an embryo not genetically related to that female and subsequent gestation of a child by that female. See Michigan Laws 722.853
  • Surrogate mother: means a female who is naturally or artificially inseminated and who subsequently gestates a child conceived through the insemination according to a surrogate parentage contract. See Michigan Laws 722.853
  • Surrogate parentage contract: means a contract, agreement, or arrangement in which a female agrees to conceive a child through natural or artificial insemination, or in which a female agrees to surrogate gestation, and to voluntarily relinquish her parental or custodial rights to the child. See Michigan Laws 722.853