Surrogacy in Montana
We serve all of Montana, working with surrogates and intended parents in Billings, Montana, in Missoula and Bozeman, in Great Falls, Montana and Helena, Montana, up in Kalispell and the Flathead, in Butte, Montana, and out along the Hi-Line and eastern Montana. Families build through gestational surrogacy in Montana every year, with the parentage order handled by your attorneys through the district court. No Montana statute addresses gestational surrogacy, so the written agreement, drafted with independent counsel on each side before any medical step, and the parentage order your attorneys plan are what carry each match here. Most of it happens where you live: you apply from home, match from home, and see your own OB for prenatal care. The first fertility-clinic appointments happen at our clinic in California, a real trip we plan with you well in advance, and from most of Montana it is a flight with one connection. Here is what that actually looks like from Montana.
- Serving
- All of MontanaBillings, Missoula, Bozeman, Great Falls, Helena, Kalispell, Butte and beyond
- Your care
- Your own OB and hospitalAt home in Montana, through delivery
- Clinic steps
- A small number of visitsTo the fertility clinic in California, planned with you
- The law
- No Montana surrogacy statuteMontana's Uniform Parentage Act is silent on it; parentage by court order, planned by your attorneys
How surrogacy works when you live in Montana
Two questions arrive before any others from Montana: is this okay here, and how far do I actually have to go? The first has a plain answer, below, in the law section. The second has one too, and no one else gives it: for most of the state the clinic trips are a connecting flight. Here is the honest geography for each side.
Montana for the pregnancy, California for the clinic
Applying, the screening conversations, and the records review happen from home by phone and video, whether home is Billings, a neighborhood in Missoula or Bozeman, Great Falls, Helena, or a town out on the Hi-Line. The first fertility-clinic appointments, the medical screening, and the embryo transfer happen at our fertility clinic in California. From most of Montana the clinic trips are a flight with one connection, through Denver, Salt Lake City, Seattle or Phoenix; Bozeman has a year-round nonstop to Los Angeles and Missoula and Kalispell have seasonal ones, and we plan every trip with you well in advance: a small number of planned trips, booked with you, never a relocation.
Once pregnancy is confirmed, everything comes home: your own OB, your own hospital, whether you deliver in Billings, Missoula, Bozeman, Great Falls, Helena, Kalispell or Butte, with your coordinator a call away throughout. The full picture is on our become a surrogate page.
One team, from the first call to the parentage order
Consultations happen by video, or in person at our California home office when you would rather have a table between you. One coordinator runs the match, the screening, and the clinic, and the legal work sits with independent attorneys, Montana counsel included, who plan the parentage order your match needs under Montana's Uniform Parentage Act and ask the district court for it on Montana's timeline.
We tell you where each step happens, and who is in the room, before you commit to anything. Start with surrogacy for intended parents.
What the law says in Montana, plainly.
"Is Montana a surrogate state?" is how people here actually ask it, and the plain answer begins with what is not there: no Montana statute addresses gestational surrogacy, and nothing in Montana law prohibits it. So the certainty in a Montana match is built rather than handed over, with a written agreement and independent counsel on each side before any medical step, and a parentage order your attorneys ask the district court to enter. The full state-by-state picture lives on our law guide.
This is general information, not legal advice. Your own Montana attorney confirms how it applies to your match.
Read our full surrogacy law guideNo Montana statute addresses gestational surrogacy, and nothing in Montana law prohibits it. Montana's Uniform Parentage Act, in force since 1975, says nothing about gestational agreements or intended parents, so a Montana family builds through gestational surrogacy the way the law leaves it: a written agreement drafted before any medical step, independent counsel for each side, and parentage settled by a court order your attorneys plan for your match. The order, not the agreement on its own, is what settles who the parents are. The same Act says the parent and child relationship extends equally to every child and to every parent, regardless of the parents' marital status.
The Act lets any interested party ask the district court to determine the mother and child relationship, and the court's judgment is determinative for all purposes and directs a new birth certificate. Montana's birth-registration law treats the woman who gives birth as the mother unless a court has determined otherwise before the certificate is filed. Montana sets no surrogacy timetable of its own, so when and how your attorneys ask for the order is their plan for your match, never a promise a page can make. Montana's Supreme Court has addressed a gestational carrier agreement once, in 2023, in a case where the carrier later married the intended parent; it treated the agreement as valid, fully performed and ended by its own terms when she handed the baby to his father at the hospital, which is why the agreement, independent counsel on each side and a clear plan for after the birth matter here.
A note on accuracy. We work in gestational surrogacy only, where the surrogate is not genetically related to the child. Because Montana has no surrogacy statute, the drafting and the counsel carry the weight; your own Montana attorney confirms how it applies to your match.
Requirements to become a surrogate in Montana
These are the general guidelines most surrogacy programs follow, ours included. Read them as a starting point rather than a verdict; the deciding step is always a conversation and a medical review.
Are between about 21 and 38 years oldThe range can flex based on your health history.
Have given birth before and are raising a child of your ownAgencies and clinics look for prior pregnancy experience.
Had healthy, full-term pregnancies and deliveriesReviewed with your medical records during screening.
Are in good general healthConfirmed through a clinic medical evaluation.
Live in a stable home with reliable supportA partner, family, or friends you can lean on.
Do not smoke or use illicit drugsAsked about and reviewed as part of screening.
Are a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent residentHelps keep the legal process clean and predictable.
Have a stable income, not relying on cash assistanceSo compensation is genuinely yours to keep.
Screening is the same everywhere we work. Montana adds no statutory eligibility list of its own, so what carries the weight is the screening itself: your medical records, a clinic evaluation in California, and psychological screening, done in that order and explained as we go. Final eligibility is that conversation plus that screening, never a form.
How much do surrogates make in Montana is one of the first questions we hear, and the honest answer is personal: compensation is real, it is written into your agreement before any medications begin, and it is shaped by your situation. It is held in escrow, you have your own attorney at the table, and in a state with no surrogacy statute the agreement is the document that spells it out. We would rather have that conversation with you personally than post headline numbers, so the figure you hear is actually yours.
A c-section in your history? A tubal ligation, anxiety, or PCOS? Usually not the end of the story, and never a reason to be turned away unheard. Our surrogate eligibility guide takes those questions one condition at a time, the become a surrogate page covers the whole arc, or simply reach out.
Building your family from Billings, Missoula or Bozeman
From Montana, working with us means one coordinated team: the match, the screening, the clinic, and the independent legal work, run by one person you know by name. Here is what that means in practice.
Remote first, in person when you want
Video consultations fit around work and school pickups; when you would rather sit down together, the California home office is a planned flight from Billings, Missoula or Bozeman, with one connection from most of the state. The step-by-step arc is on our how surrogacy works page.
Counsel who plan the parentage order
Your agreement is drafted and reviewed by independent attorneys, who plan the parentage order your match needs under Montana's Uniform Parentage Act and ask the district court for it on Montana's timeline. Because no Montana statute addresses surrogacy, that planning decides everything, and experienced Montana counsel carries it so you do not have to.
Every kind of family, welcomed
We welcome married, unmarried, LGBTQ+, and single intended parents. Montana's parentage law says the parent and child relationship extends equally to every child and to every parent, regardless of the parents' marital status, and experienced Montana counsel structures the right parentage path for each family. See how we support LGBTQ+ families.
Clear costs before you commit
"How much does surrogacy cost in Montana?" comes up early, so we answer it early. Surrogate compensation is one part of the cost in Montana, and the clinic, the legal work, and your insurance shape the rest, so we post no price lists and spring no surprises: before you commit, we walk through what shapes the total and put a personalized estimate in writing for your situation. Whether insurance covers any of it is a real question here too, and your consultation covers what your own coverage does and does not do. Our surrogacy costs guide shows how that conversation works.
How does surrogacy work in Montana?
Six steps, the same order every time, at the pace your match sets. Here is the road from first call to homecoming.
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First conversation and application
By phone or video from anywhere in Montana, Billings to Kalispell. Surrogates begin an application; intended parents talk goals, timing, and the kind of relationship they hope to have with their surrogate. Nothing medical yet.
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Screening, remote first
Records review and psychological screening are arranged around your schedule, mostly from home. The in-person clinic evaluation at the California clinic is one of the planned trips, a connecting flight for most of Montana, with dates you will know well in advance.
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Matching
We introduce a surrogate and intended parents who fit each other on values, expectations, communication style, and the practical things, like contact during pregnancy and views on tough medical decisions. You decide together whether to move forward.
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Legal contracts with independent counsel on each side
Each side retains its own attorney, and the gestational carrier agreement is completed and signed before any medications begin. In a state with no surrogacy statute, that written agreement is the foundation, and this is also when compensation and expenses go into writing.
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Embryo transfer and pregnancy
The California clinic handles the medical cycle and the transfer. Then Montana takes over: your own OB, your own hospital, your own bed, in Billings, Missoula, Bozeman, Great Falls, Helena or wherever home is, from the first heartbeat appointment to delivery, with your coordinator close to both sides throughout.
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Parentage and birth
Your attorneys ask the Montana district court for the parentage order, on Montana's timeline, so the intended parents are recognized as the child's parents, the birth certificate is issued accordingly, and the family goes home together.
A California team, honest about the miles
We are a surrogacy agency serving all of Montana from our home office in Rancho Cucamonga, California, and we would rather say that plainly than pretend a Billings or Bozeman storefront. Montana is a real flight away, with a connection for most of the state, so the program is built for it: phone and video for everything except the clinic steps, scheduled around your work and your kids, with trips planned well ahead.
When you reach out, a real person calls you back and stays your person, whether home is a street in Billings, a neighborhood in Missoula or Bozeman, Great Falls or Helena, the Flathead around Kalispell, Butte, or a town along the Hi-Line. The only steps that bring you to California are the clinic ones.
11989 Arrow Route, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91739
(626) 528-6868
Montana surrogacy, answered
Is surrogacy legal in Montana?
No Montana statute addresses gestational surrogacy, and nothing in Montana law prohibits it. Montana's Uniform Parentage Act is silent on gestational agreements, so families here build through gestational surrogacy with a written agreement, independent counsel on each side, and a parentage order your attorneys ask the district court to enter.
The record answers the question in its own terms, and your own Montana attorney applies it to your match. For the state-by-state picture, see our surrogacy law guide.
Is Montana a surrogate state?
Montana has no surrogacy statute and no court decision restricting gestational surrogacy, so families build through surrogacy here every year; because there is no statute, the agreement and the parentage order your attorneys plan carry the weight, and we build every Montana match around both.
That is a difference in how the certainty is built, not a barrier to building a family here. The depth lives on our surrogacy law guide.
What are the requirements to become a surrogate in Montana?
Roughly: 21 to 38 years old, at least one healthy birth, a child you are raising now, good general health, no smoking, and a stable, supported home.
Montana adds no statutory eligibility list of its own, so those program guidelines plus medical and psychological screening carry the decision. Every application is read by a person, not a filter; the surrogate eligibility guide handles the condition-by-condition questions.
How much do surrogates make in Montana?
How much do surrogates make in Montana is one of the first questions we hear, and the honest answer is personal: compensation is real, it is written into your agreement before any medications begin, and it is shaped by your situation.
It is held in escrow, you have your own attorney at the table, and in a state with no surrogacy statute the agreement is the document that spells it out; we talk it through with you personally rather than posting numbers. The whole arc is on our become a surrogate page.
Do I have to travel to California?
Yes, for exactly two kinds of milestones: the first fertility-clinic appointments, including screening, and the embryo transfer, which happen at the California clinic; the pregnancy, your own OB and the delivery stay home in Montana.
From most of Montana that is a flight with one connection, through Denver, Salt Lake City, Seattle or Phoenix; Bozeman has a year-round nonstop to Los Angeles, Missoula and Kalispell have seasonal ones, and we plan each trip with you well in advance.
How do intended parents in Billings, Missoula, or Bozeman get started?
With a conversation. Consultations are remote or at our California home office, and from there we coordinate the match, the screening, the clinic, and the independent legal work.
We walk through costs before you commit: surrogate compensation is one part of the cost in Montana, and the clinic, the legal work, and your insurance shape the rest. Start on our intended parents page, see the full arc on how surrogacy works, or read the surrogacy costs guide.
Do you need a lawyer for surrogacy in Montana?
Every Lily Baby match includes independent counsel on each side, drafted before any medical step, and in Montana that matters even more: there is no surrogacy statute, so the agreement and the parentage order your attorneys ask the district court to enter are what settle who the parents are.
Your attorneys draft the agreement and ask the Montana district court for the parentage order. We coordinate the referrals so you are never hunting for counsel alone.
Get started in Montana
It starts with a conversation, from wherever you are in Montana. We listen first, then show you exactly what comes next, including what the trips look like from your airport.