Financial protection
We never hold your surrogate's money. That is the point.
Most of the surrogacy fraud cases prosecuted in the United States share one feature: the agency held client money itself, or secretly controlled the company that did. Angel Heart Surrogacy is structured so that cannot happen.
Our rules
Five rules we do not bend.
These are written into our services agreement with you, not just stated here.
Independent escrow, always
Surrogate compensation, allowances and reimbursements are held by a licensed escrow company. Angel Heart Surrogacy, its owners and its staff have no ownership, employment or financial interest in it.
Licensed and bonded
We work only with escrow companies that are licensed where required, carry a fidelity bond, and give you a written fund management agreement.
You see every transaction
The escrow company gives you your own portal access and a statement for every deposit and payment. You never rely on us to tell you where your money is.
Paid to the contract
The escrow company pays your surrogate only as your gestational carrier agreement specifies. We cannot instruct it to do otherwise.
Our fee is separate
Our fee is paid to Angel Heart Surrogacy on a published schedule. It is never taken from escrow, and escrow is never used to fund our operations.
How escrow works
From deposit to final statement.
01
After contracts
The account is opened
Once your gestational carrier agreement is signed, the escrow company opens an account in your name and sends you a fund management agreement and deposit instructions.02
Before medications
You fund it
You deposit the amount your contract requires, usually most of the expected compensation and expenses, before your surrogate begins medications. Some escrow companies allow staged deposits.03
Throughout
Your surrogate is paid on schedule
Her monthly compensation begins once a heartbeat is confirmed. Allowances, milestone payments and reimbursements are paid as they occur, with receipts.04
After the birth
The account is reconciled
Final payments are made, the account is reconciled, and any unused balance is returned to you.
Protecting your transfers
Wire fraud is the most common way families lose money. It is also preventable.
- Our bank details appear once, in your signed services agreement. They will never change by email.
- Before any wire, call us on the number in your agreement, never a number in an email, and confirm the details aloud.
- Escrow deposit instructions come from the escrow company, through its portal. Confirm them with the escrow company by phone before sending.
- If an email ever asks you to pay somewhere new or urgently, stop. Call us. It is not from us.
