Co-maternity

Developments in jurisprudence and legislation thus suggest a growing openness to identifying a birth mother and her same-sex partner as a child’s ‘natural’ or ‘original’ parents whether that child has been conceived through assisted reproduction. But the idea of co-maternity still seems limited and tenuous.

Utvalget har vurdert hvilke regler som bør gjelde ved fastsettelse av farskap, morskap og medmorskap for barn som er født som et resultat av assistert befruktning i utlandet.

The legal issues for those pursuing co-maternity or egg-sharing are no less complex. Recent cases have shown the need for competent legal representation from the very earliest stages of the family-formation process.

In the case of a woman who gives birth while married to a trans woman, the co-maternity arrangement adopted by Norway and a few other countries for the case of same sex couples seem to work well enough.

Farskap eller medmorskap fastsatt i utlandet kan bli anerkjent i Norge.