Protect Your Future Family With a Fertility Preservation Trust
Medical advances like IVF, egg freezing, sperm freezing, and embryo preservation have made it possible to plan for parenthood on your timeline. But these advances also create unique legal and estate planning challenges.
At [Your Firm Name], we help individuals and couples create fertility preservation trusts and update existing trusts to include fertility preservation terms. This ensures your wishes for your preserved eggs, sperm, or embryos are clearly documented and legally protected.
Why You Might Need a Fertility Preservation Trust
If you’ve preserved genetic material, you could use a trust to:
- Clarify ownership and control of eggs, sperm, or embryos in the event of death or incapacity
- Ensure future children are legally recognized as heirs and protected financially
- Avoid disputes among surviving family members about how your preserved fertility materials should be used
- Provide funds for storage, IVF procedures, or future child support and education
- Maintain privacy — unlike wills, trusts do not become public through probate
Without clear trust language, your wishes may be left to medical providers, courts, or family members — leading to uncertainty and conflict.
Updating Your Existing Trust: Restatements With Fertility Preservation Terms
If you already have a revocable trust, you don’t need to start from scratch. We offer trust restatements that update your estate plan to include fertility preservation language, such as:
- Defining preserved genetic material as part of your estate
- Specifying who may make decisions about storage, use, or disposal
- Identifying how and when embryos may be used to conceive future children
- Ensuring children born from assisted reproductive technology are included as legal heirs
By restating your trust, you can modernize your estate plan while keeping the structure of your existing trust intact.
Who Should Consider a Fertility Preservation Trust?
You may benefit from a fertility preservation trust if you:
- Have frozen eggs, sperm, or embryos
- Are undergoing IVF, surrogacy, or other assisted reproductive treatments
- Want to ensure your future children are included in your estate plan
- Want to protect your genetic material from disputes or unintended use
Choosing Your Fertility Preservation Estate Planning Attorney
You want an estate planning attorney who understands both the legal and personal complexities of assisted reproductive technology estate planning.
At Glouzgal Law PLLC, we provide:
- Customized fertility preservation trust drafting
- Advice and Counsel on possible options
- Confidential, compassionate legal guidance
- Experience navigating the intersection of reproductive technology and estate law
Take Control of Your Legacy
Your decision to preserve your fertility is deeply personal. Don’t leave control of your DNA to unintended third parties. Provide for or disinherit future born children. With a fertility preservation trust or trust restatement, you can make sure your genetic material — and your future family — are protected according to your wishes.