If you have been consulting with a fertility doctor, and have reached a point in the process where you have decided to build your family through surrogacy, you are probably wondering about next steps. Your fertility doctor may have recommended that y…
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Congratulations—your divorce is final! You survived the breakdown of your marriage, the often sad and stressful divorce process, and now you’re ready to move on with life after divorce. Moving on after divorce is different for everyone. Some peop…
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It’s the time that intended parents look forward to the most: the days after the birth of their child, when their dreams of parenthood have become a reality. Life with a newborn is both exhausting and exhilarating, no matter how the baby became par…
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America has always been obsessed with celebrity relationships: who’s dating who, who’s getting married, and especially who’s getting divorced. Often, it seems that the more sensational and ugly a celebrity divorce is, the more captivated we are…
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The military divorce rate went down from 3.1% in 2019 to 2.8% in 2020. While that might seem like a good thing at first glance, it’s likely that the decline wasn’t due to an increase in marital harmony among service members and their spouses. A m…
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Stephanie Brinkley will be speaking at the American Bar Association Spring Family Law Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. Stephanie’s panel will present “Yours, Mine and Ours – The Crossroad Between Fertility and Family Law.” The panel will…
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Stephanie Brinkley will be speaking at the The Egg Donor Meeting in Charleston, South Carolina on Friday, April 8th, 2022. The speaking topic will be “Legal Considerations for Same Sex Parenting.” The event will be held at Wild Dunes Resort, 200…
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As a surrogate, you are quite literally bringing a dream to life. That is a powerful and joyful experience. In light of that, you may wonder why you would need extra support. While it’s true that the positive emotions involved in surrogacy will hel…
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Certain issues are a part of every divorce: division of marital property, and, if there are children, custody of those children. But what happens in marriages in which the marital “property” includes frozen embryos from IVF procedures? Is there s…
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Marriage can be hard. In many ways, a marriage in which one or both spouses is in the military can be even harder, with the deployments and other challenges military families face. It is no surprise that military divorce rates are slightly higher tha…
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Since founding Brinkley Law Firm in 2011, attorney Stephanie Brinkley has helped families grow and expand by navigating them through the legal challenges surrounding Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART) and Adoption. As an attorney who focuses on f… Read More