Legal concerns my partner and I had about IVF, being unmarried

The legal concerns that we had around the IVF were mostly what would happen, whose consent would we need, what would happen to the eggs, and whether we were making this decision as a couple or not. Because we were not married, we had to lay out terms—well, we chose to lay out the terms as equally as possible. We chose to, in the event that I was ready to have a child and we were not together, I would need my boyfriend’s consent. Also, in the event that he was ready to have a child with a woman who maybe wasn’t able to have her own children, he would need my consent. And that was an option for us; it is an option for us. We also spelled out what would happen if we were able to have our own biological children with each other or without each other. What would happen to the eggs? Would we choose to destroy them? Would we choose to give them to another couple? Or would we choose to have them be used for research? And we decided to have them be used for research if necessary. So it was mostly all the different scenarios. There was a lot of what if situations and the lawyer who we worked with, this is her specialty. So she knew all the “what if” scenarios and was able to spell those out for us.