Rebecca Levin Nayak guides her clients through the complexities of adoption, assisted reproduction, surrogacy, and other means of creating and protecting families. Particularly experienced in parentage law, she strives to ensure that the legal relationships between children and the adults who love and provide for them are secure.
The proud sister of two adopted siblings and with her own family built through assisted reproduction and co-parenting, Rebecca draws on her personal experience to support intended parents and families as they navigate anything from obtaining a pre-birth parentage order to agreements governing embryo, sperm or egg donations, to all kinds of adoption to co-parenting arrangements. Compassionate and thoughtful, Rebecca understands that each family has unique considerations, as do donors and gestational carriers, and she helps make sure everyone’s rights and roles are clearly defined and protected. Members of the LGBTQ+ community may face additional challenges, and Rebecca is experienced in counseling individuals in those particularities, whether that is establishing parentage or going through a confirmatory adoption.
Rebecca believes in giving back to the community through education, community service, and pro bono work. She presents on topics related to her considerable experience with adoption and assisted reproduction to attorneys, medical professionals, judges, and community members.
Rebecca is a Fellow of the Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys, chairing the Academy’s ART Membership Committee. Throughout her career, Rebecca has been a passionate advocate for equality. She is a founding member of the Family Law Institute of the National LGBTQ+ Bar and has served on the board of the National LGBTQ+ Bar Association.
Representative Experience
- Advises clients on all steps of applying for and obtaining pre-birth and post-birth parentage orders.
- Handles adoptions including confirmatory, kinship, stepparent and private (or independent adoption) for both adopting families and birth parents.
- Drafts and reviews agreements involving surrogates, gestational carriers, and egg, embryo and sperm donations.
- Counsels on creation, implementation and revision of co-parenting agreements.