Monica Mason, Founder, with her daughter

About Us

              Our Services
              Our Method
              Timetable - Surrogacy
              Timetable - Egg Donors
              Disclaimer
              Anonymity and Confidentiality

Surrogacy Solutions, LLC is a third party reproduction agency providing the service of creating relationships between people who would not otherwise find one another. Through Surrogacy Solutions, LLC, people who desire to become parents of children and cannot do so alone, and women who wish to assist those intended parents as a surrogate mother or egg donor (or both), are able to meet and contract for the purpose of creating a child for the intended parents using assisted reproduction technology.

Surrogacy Solutions, LLC is an Arkansas limited liability company formed by attorney Monica Mason with its principal place of business at 7901 Hwy. 107, Sherwood, Arkansas.

Arkansas law is among the most favorable in the nation for surrogate parenting. Working with Surrogacy Solutions will permit intended parents across the country and abroad to take advantage of the favorable treatment of surrogacy in Arkansas.

Our Method

Surrogacy Solutions matches candidates for egg donation and surrogacy with intended parents with painstaking and personal attention to the needs and desires of both parties. Through our network and other methods of location and selection of candidates we offer security and peace of mind. As the relationship progresses, Surrogacy Solutions facilitates the creation of a contractual relationship between the parties, and handles all monetary negotiations with surrogates and egg donors. The agency administers the surrogacy and egg donation contracts, including coordination of medical services, throughout the assisted reproduction technology process. By working with us, intended parents, surrogates, and egg donors receive personalized assistance with every aspect of the process. We are available to all parties twenty-four hours a day, and even make travel and accommodations arrangements for all parties. The agency guides all parties through the process, taking care of the dozens of details and ensuring that the relationship between the parties is an emotionally pleasant experience focused exclusively on the joy of creating a family for the intended parents, and resolving financial stress and other worries for the intended parents.

The agency is open 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, excluding national holidays, but parties to contracts have 24-hour access to appropriate personnel to assist with any immediate medical, psychological, or administrative needs in connection with the contract.

Timetable for Candidates for Surrogacy

1. Complete profile.
2. Within three months, we will begin additional screening procedures, or notice will be given if Surrogacy Solutions is unable to approve you as a candidate for surrogacy.
3. Within three months to six months of the date you submit your completed profile and complete the additional screening procedures, you may expect us to submit your profile for review by intended parents.
4. Upon being matched with intended parents, you will undergo any additional testing requested by the physician who will perform the IVF or artificial insemination. This should be completed within a month or so for traditional surrogacy and within three months for gestational surrogacy.
5. In traditional surrogacy, inseminations may begin with the next cycle after final clearance by the physician. We recommend in traditional surrogacy, up to three cycles of physician insemination be undertaken with no more than three additional cycles as an option; or, no more than two cycles of self-insemination (where allowed by law) with up to four more inseminations by a physician. In gestational surrogacy, six to ten weeks may pass between final medical clearance and the actual IVF procedure because of the time involved in coordinating the cycles of both women and the physician. We recommend in gestational surrogacy, one IVF cycle, with the option of up to two additional embryo transfers from frozen or fresh embryos, if necessary.

Timetable for Egg Donor

Disclaimer

Surrogacy Solutions, LLC does not provide legal services or legal advice to any person. Surrogacy Solutions will retain the services of Monica L. Mason, P. A., an Arkansas law firm, to represent all intended parents who work with the agency. The law firm will draft the contract after negotiations for contract provisions and terms are completed by the agency, will finalize the relationship between the intended parents and their child after the birth of the child, and will be available to the intended parents to answer any legal questions throughout the process. The cost of these legal services is paid on behalf of the intended parents by the agency directly to the law firm, from the total fee paid to Surrogacy Solutions by the intended parents.

Neither Surrogacy Solutions nor the law firm will provide legal advice or legal services to any surrogate or egg donor candidate. All egg donors and surrogates must retain an attorney to review the final contract with them and provide them with legal advice prior to signing the contract. Surrogacy Solutions will assist any surrogate or egg donor candidate in locating an attorney to represent them.

Surrogacy Solutions does not provide medical advice to any person. Surrogacy Solutions personnel will assist the parties by discussing medical advice provided by the treating physicians in order to maximize the likelihood of successful outcome from assisted reproduction technology.

Surrogacy Solutions requires a psychological evaluation of surrogate and egg donor candidates by a licensed psychologist within twenty-four months prior to entering into a contract for surrogacy or egg donation. Some treating physicians may require a more current evaluation. Surrogacy Solutions relies upon the recommendation of the psychologist and does not undertake to independently determine the psychological fitness of a surrogate or egg donor candidate. Surrogacy Solutions does not typically require a psychological evaluation of intended parents except where the intended parents are related to their egg donor or surrogate; where the intended parents and the surrogate or egg donor have known one another on a personal basis; or where the intended parents and the surrogate or egg donor are acquainted or otherwise have the likelihood of coming into social contact with one another after the birth (i.e., members of the same church, friends, co-workers, relatives of in-laws, etc.). Some treating physicians require psychological evaluations of intended parents, regardless of the circumstances.

Surrogacy Solutions does not guarantee that a surrogate or egg donor will pass final medical testing or meet the requirements of a particular treating physician. Surrogate and egg donor candidates accepted by the agency and offered to intended parents will meet the statistical requirements of at least some treating physicians as to age, weight, and height. Statistical data on a selected surrogate or egg donor candidate should be submitted to the actual treating physician for pre-approval. The ultimate decision to proceed with any surrogate or egg donor candidate belongs exclusively to the intended parents, and should be made in consultation with the treating physician.

Surrogacy Solutions does not guarantee that any particular surrogacy or egg donation will result in a pregnancy, or that any pregnancy created will result in a live birth.

Anonymity and Confidentiality

We recommend that giving and receiving donor eggs be made on an informed but anonymous basis. Intended parents will be provided with the egg donor's profile with all identifying information except the donor's first name and city of residence redacted. Egg donors will be provided with the first names, state of residence, and brief explanation about the reason donor eggs are required for the intended parents. Additional non-identifying information about the donor requested by the intended parents will be obtained and provided. Donors may request additional non-identifying information about the intended parents, such as occupation or city of residence, and that information will be provided only with the consent of the intended parents.

In gestational and traditional surrogacy arrangements, we discourage anonymity. However, we encourage a particular level of confidentiality. Neither party will be provided with the other party's social security or driver's license numbers under any circumstances. For the home address of a party to be disclosed to the other party, both parties must agree to the disclosure. The state of residence, age, marital status, and explanation of the reason surrogacy is required for the intended parents will be provided to the surrogate candidate. The surrogate may request additional non-identifying information about the intended parents, such as occupation or city of residence, and that information will be provided if known, unless the intended parents specifically instruct us to the contrary.

All surrogacy and egg donation files are confidential, and that confidentiality extends to the law firm of Monica L. Mason, P.A. Agency personnel will not discuss or disclose information contained in our files, except to medical providers where necessary to treatment.

Our file regarding a specific intended parent will be available for reference by that intended parent for a limited time in the future, upon providing us with adequate assurance of identity and a written request for information signed under oath. We do not undertake permanent storage of any files. Availability of files in the future does not extend to the children created from a surrogacy or egg donation, or to surrogates and egg donors unless otherwise provided in the contract.

Absent an order of a court of competent jurisdiction, we will not disclose the identity of an anonymous egg donor to any person under any circumstances at any time. Absent an order of a court of competent jurisdiction, we will neither confirm nor deny the fact of surrogacy or egg donation as to as to any person; provide the identity of a surrogate or egg donor; provide the identity of any intended parent; or disclosure the identity of a child created from surrogacy or egg donation to any person at any time for any reason, absent the consent to disclosure of all original parties made in writing and signed under oath. Any surrogate or egg donor may provide to us at any time written consent to disclose information in the event such information should be requested in the future.

Excluding the identity of a surrogate or egg donor, we will honor a future request for disclosure of information contained in an intended parent's file to their child of another person only under the following circumstances:

• Order of any court of competent jurisdiction compelling our disclosure of information
• Power of attorney from either intended parent to another person given while of sound mind, and which specifically authorizes that person to obtain any information contained in the Surrogacy Solutions files pertaining to their child by surrogacy or egg donation accompanied by medical or legal evidence of signature verification and competence at the time of execution, together with medical or legal evidence of incapacity or incompetence at the time of request (i.e., you give a power of attorney in the event of your incapacity, and you then lapse into a coma), all of which must be satisfactory to Surrogacy Solutions
• Specific grant in an intended parent's last will and testament to a named and identified person of the right to obtain any information contained in the Surrogacy Solutions files pertaining to their child by surrogacy or egg donation, accompanied by a court order admitting the will to probate after your death, and a written request by the person signed under oath accompanied by assurance of identity. It is important that intended parents plan ahead in this regard because neither their death without instructions in their will nor appointment by a court of a legal guardian of their person or estate will be sufficient evidence of intent that we disclose information and such requests will not be honored.

We will make a reasonable effort to assist you in locating your traditional surrogate or egg donor during your child's lifetime in the event of demonstrated medical need. However, we will not disclose an address or telephone number of your traditional surrogate or egg donor to you after the birth of your child, despite medical need, without the prior consent of the surrogate or egg donor.