Alaska Surrogacy Law
The legal status of surrogacy agreements in Alaska is unclear. State law is silent regarding surrogacy and only one reported case of limited importance has touched on the issue.
The only case dealing with surrogacy in the Alaska courts appears to treat surrogacy as a type of adoption. In one 1989 custody case, the plaintiff was a Chickasaw woman who orally agreed to be inseminated by sperm from her sister’s husband to bear a child for them and then signed legal adoption papers upon relinquishing custody. She sought to have the adoption invalidated on the basis that it had not been carried out in accordance with a relevant federal statute (related to Indian governance). The Supreme Court of Alaska rejected her petition, finding that the state adoption law’s one-year statute of limitations had passed.
Citation: In re T.N.F., 781 P.2d 973 (Alaska 1989).
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Last Updated: 6/10/2004