Catherine Tucker

My own experiences with infertility are what led me to found the Law Office of Catherine Tucker PLLC, which is the only New Hampshire based law firm that focuses exclusively on fertility law. You can learn more about how I developed my law practice in an article published in the New Hampshire Bar News--Practitioner Profile: Finding a Niche Through Personal Experience.

Through the law firm, I work with intended parents, donors, and surrogates to help them navigate the fertility law process. I regularly write and review surrogacy contracts, donor agreements, and parentage orders (called pre-birth orders in some states). I also work with clients who are already parents to make sure the appropriate legal work is in place to protect their families through second parent or confirmatory adoptions. And I use my background in insurance law to evaluate insurance policies and to help clients file insurance appeals.
I’m passionate about improving the laws to protect patient access to fertility treatments. I have collaborated with fertility professionals, law professors, and organizations from around the country to successfully advocate for policy changes on both a state and federal level. I was part of a small group of fertility lawyers selected from throughout the U.S. to serve on a committee tasked with preparing model acts on behalf of the American Bar Association. One of the committee’s final products was accepted by the ABA as the gold standard for the regulation of surrogacy agencies.

I am especially honored to have co-authored New Hampshire’s surrogacy law which streamlined the surrogacy process and put into place strong protections for both intended parents and surrogates. This law has been used as a model by other states considering improvements to their own surrogacy laws.