The New Jersey Law Journal heralded the Dec. 13 decision in A.G.R. v. D.R.H. & S.H. as a “watershed case” that advanced the law in the state on surrogate reproduction and the rights of gay parents. The unusual facts in the case drew national media attention and commentary in the blogosphere.
The ruling represents the second step in a process started in 2009 when Hudson County Superior Court Judge Francis Schultz ruled that a gestational carrier is the legal mother of twins although she has no genetic link with them. Schultz found that the gestational contract was unenforceable and that the gestational carrier had a legal right to assert her maternity.
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