New York's top administrative judge hailed Albany County Surrogate Deborah S. Kearns' "cross-functional experience and deep knowledge of surrogate’s court." She succeeds a Manhattan surrogate in the ...

For starters, a surrogate mother is a woman who has agreed to carry a pregnancy to term for another woman – legally, under a surrogacy agreement - and lays no legal claim to the born child.

A legal battle over a $330 million estate in New York has escalated into a wider controversy surrounding the functioning of the Queens Surrogate's Court. At the center of the dispute is 23-year-old ...