ADOPT-206 - Declaration Confirming Parentage in Stepparent Adoption: Gestational Surrogacy

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Declaration Confirming Parentage in Stepparent Adoption: Gestational Surrogacy

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Form ID: ADOPT-206
Title: Declaration Confirming Parentage in Stepparent Adoption: Gestational Surrogacy
Effective Date: 2026-01-01
Mandatory Form: no
Info Page: https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/jcc-form/ADOPT-206
Primary Download URL: https://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/adopt206.pdf
Form Detail Page:
Declaration Confirming Parentage in Stepparent Adoption: Gestational Surrogacy
(ADOPT-206)
Tells the court that you are adopting the child of your spouse or domestic partner and the child was conceived through gestational surrogacy.  Once completed, this form must be attached to the Adoption Request (ADOPT-200).
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Effective: January 1, 2026
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Judicial Council of California, courts.ca.gov 
Rev. January 1, 2026, Optional Form  
Fam. Code, § 9000.5
Declaration Confirming Parentage in 
Stepparent Adoption: Gestational Surrogacy
ADOPT-206, Page 1 of 2
ADOPT-206
Your name:
Case Number:
Declaration Confirming Parentage in Stepparent Adoption: Gestational Surrogacy
This form is attached to form , Stepparent Adoption Request. 
This optional form may be attached to form ADOPT-203 if the adopting parent was married to or in a state-registered 
domestic partnership or equivalent civil union with the parent who established parentage through a gestational surrogacy 
process. You may instead attach a declaration in another format containing substantially the same information. The legal 
parent through surrogacy and the adopting parent must complete separate declarations.
1 I (write your name) declare as follows:
2 Relationship between the legal parent and the adopting parent seeking to confirm parentage (check one):
a. I am the parent of a child born through a gestational surrogacy process. Only my parentage was established 
through the Uniform Parentage Act or another proceeding related to the surrogacy. Before the birth of the 
child, I married, or entered into a state-registered domestic partnership (including a domestic partnership or 
civil union from out-of-state that is legally equivalent to a marriage) with, the adopting parent who is seeking
to confirm parentage, (name) , and we remain in that union.
b. I am the adopting parent seeking to confirm parentage. Before the birth of the child, I married, or entered into 
a state-registered domestic partnership (including a domestic partnership or civil union from out-of-state that 
is legally equivalent to a marriage) with, the parent whose parentage has been established for a child born 
through a gestational surrogacy process, (name) , and we
remain in that union.
3 We were married/registered as domestic partners on (date you entered into your earliest union)
before our child was born. A copy of our marriage certificate, registered domestic partner certificate, or certificate 
of out-of-state domestic partnership or civil union is attached.
4 Our child (name of child to be adopted) was born on (date)
outside of the state of California. A copy of our child’s birth certificate is attached.
5 Our child was conceived through a gestational surrogacy process. (Describe how your child was conceived.)

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Rev. January 1, 2026 Declaration Confirming Parentage in 
Stepparent Adoption: Gestational Surrogacy
ADOPT-206, Page 1 of 2
Your name:
Case Number:
6 If there are any other persons who are or may be the child’s parents, describe these persons’ relationship to the 
child, including their names, the ways in which these persons act as parents to the child, and whether these 
persons consent to the adoption:
I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing is true and correct.
Date:
Type or print your name
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  Form ID: ADOPT-206 Title: Declaration Confirming Parentage in Stepparent Adoption: Gestational Surrogacy Effective Date: 2026-01-01 Mandatory Form: no Info Page: https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/jcc-form/ADOPT-206 Primary Download URL: https://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/adopt206.pdf Form Detail Page: Declaration…

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  is legally equivalent to a marriage) with, the parent whose parentage has been established for a child born through a gestational surrogacy process, (name) , and we remain in that union. 3 We were married/registered as domestic partners on (date you entered into your earliest union) before our child was born. A co…