How a Consumer Hired a Lawyer to Draft a Surrogacy Contract in California

In 2025, a personal client in California posted a project seeking assistance with drafting a surrogacy contract. The client needed a formal agreement between her husband and their surrogate, who is his sister, to outline the terms of their arrangement. Key considerations included using a donor egg, compensating the surrogate for her services, and ensuring that the couple retained full parental rights while the surrogate would maintain no familial rights. As a result, the client received four proposals from licensed lawyers, with flat fee bids ranging from $700 to $3,499, all submitted to complete the work within the requested deadline of less than one week.