N.Y. FCT Law § 581-705
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Adjudication
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§ 581-705. Adjudication. (a) A court adjudicating the parentage of a\nchild conceived through assisted reproduction or adjudicating the\nenforceability of an embryo disposition agreement may apply section\n581-202 and part three of this article retroactively.\n (b) The participants in a surrogacy agreement that involved the\npayment of compensation prior to February fifteenth, two thousand\ntwenty-one shall not be eligible to receive a judgment of parentage\npursuant to section 581-203 or section 581-406 of this article, but\nshall be entitled to seek a judgment of parentage pursuant to section\n581-407 of this article.\n (c) This article shall apply retroactively to uncompensated surrogacy\nagreements entered into prior to February fifteenth, two thousand\ntwenty-one, with regard to a court adjudication the parentage of a\nchild.\n (d) Surrogacy agreements that were executed on or after February\nfifteenth, two thousand twenty-one, but before the effective date of the\nchapter of the laws of two thousand twenty-four that added this\nsubdivision that were in compliance with this article before it was\namended by the chapter of the laws of two thousand twenty-four that\nadded this subdivision shall be deemed a compliant surrogacy agreement\npursuant to section 581-406 of this article regardless of any deviations\nfrom the current provisions of this article.\n
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