Legal Framework
Colorado does not have a dedicated gestational surrogacy statute, but its courts have developed a well-established framework for recognizing and enforcing gestational surrogacy agreements and issuing pre-birth orders. Colorado courts routinely grant PBOs for all intended parent configurations, and the state’s legal community has extensive experience with surrogacy matters.
Pre-Birth Orders in Colorado
Colorado courts routinely issue pre-birth orders for all family types — married couples, unmarried couples, same-sex couples, single parents, and international intended parents. The process is well-understood by the Colorado legal community and consistently predictable.
LGBTQ+ Intended Parents
Colorado provides strong protections for LGBTQ+ intended parents. Same-sex couples and single parents receive pre-birth orders on the same basis as other intended parents. Colorado is a popular surrogacy destination for LGBTQ+ families in the Mountain West region.
Colorado’s courts have developed a strong pro-surrogacy framework through case law, making it effectively as reliable as states with explicit statutes.