198 NOTE OF SURROGACY CONTRACTS Svetlana Morozova (Russia) LEGAL ASPECTS Author Alumnus of the Kutafin Moscow State Law University, 2015 Email: cbina@yandex.ru Abstract This article concerns relevant issues and important aspects of surrogate motherhood. <...> Lately practice deals with many disputes when surrogate mother doesn’t return a child to parents or demands to increase contract’s price. <...> Unfortunately, Russian Family Code doesn’t contain obligatory terms of the contract in question. <...> Court ruling shows that nobody can put mother who is carrying ones’ baby to a claim to give a child to biological parents. <...> Persons who gave a written consent for implantation an embryo to other woman can formally become parents only upon surrogate mother’s approbation. <...> It’s necessary to make amendments to Russian Family Code regarding surrogacy contract, to regulate the registration and to establish responsibility for surrogate mother for breach of contract. <...> Keywords Surrogate motherhood, extracorporeal fertilization, voluntary participation, biological parents protection, surrogacy contract DOI: 10.17803/2313-5395.2016.1.5.198-203 www.kulawr.ru Volume 1 April 2016 Issue 1(5) KUTAFIN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW Svetlana Morozova Contract for the Provision of Surrogate Motherhood: Legal Problems 199 The surrogate motherhood is an accepted fact in a modern society.1 Somebody faces with the problem of conceiving and giving a birth to a child in a natural way, but most of the women want to feel happiness of motherhood and give birth by her own. <...> Contemporary medicine science takes an opportunity of using extracorporeal fertilization when a woman carries an embryo conceived by stranger’s sex cells. <...> Such interference with the physiological process entails both legal consequences and legal conflicts. <...> Surrogacy emerged in 1981 in the United States of America when the first successful program of extracorporeal fertilization was implemented. <...> Under Russian Family Code neither spouses who gave a permission for the implantation of embryo to another woman nor a surrogate mother have a right to dispute a motherhood and fatherhood, referring to the circumstances linked to surrogate motherhood, after a registration of parents in the register book of births. <...> Surrogate mother could be a women from 20 to 35 who has got at least <...>