Category Archives: Embryo Disputes in Divorce
Does A Fertility Clinic Agreement Control After Divorce?
Fertility treatment often requires couples to sign detailed consent forms before embryos are created, stored, transferred, donated, or discarded. Those forms may seem like routine medical paperwork when a couple is trying to have a child, but they can become extremely important if the marriage later ends. A disagreement over frozen embryos can involve… Read More »
Can My Ex Use Our Frozen Embryos After Divorce?
Frozen embryos can become one of the most difficult issues to address when a marriage ends. Unlike a bank account, home, or retirement plan, embryos involve questions about reproduction, parentage, consent, and whether one former spouse can use genetic material to have a child after the relationship has ended. Illinois law now provides more… Read More »
Can You Modify An IVF Agreement After It Has Been Signed?
An IVF agreement may be signed during a hopeful period when both partners share the same plans for building a family. Those plans can change because of separation, divorce, illness, financial hardship, religious concerns, or a change in one person’s desire to become a parent. When that happens, one or both parties may want… Read More »
Frozen Embryo Custody Battles In Illinois Divorce Cases
Divorce is about more than just splitting up money, property, or retirement accounts. With assisted reproductive technology becoming more common, frozen embryo disputes are now a key issue in Illinois family law. When couples use IVF to create embryos and later divorce, they may disagree about what should happen to those embryos. One person… Read More »
Who Gets The Frozen Embryos During An Illinois Divorce?
Deciding what happens to frozen embryos during a divorce can be one of the most emotional and complicated issues. Unlike other property, frozen embryos often carry a couple’s hopes for future children. When a marriage ends, each spouse may have different ideas about whether to keep, donate, use, or destroy the embryos. Illinois courts… Read More »