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Top Rated Family Law Attorney with 41 years of experience

Adoption, Estate Planning, Probate

11270 86th Ave. N., Maple Grove, MN 55369

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About Steven Henry Snyder

Practice Areas

Adoption
Estate Planning
Probate

Education

University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1982
J.D.
- Honors: cum laude
University of St. Thomas, St Paul, MN, U.S.A., 1974
B.A.
- Major: English
- Honors: magna cum laude

Representative Cases

McNattin v. McNattin, 450N.W.2d169 (Minnesota Appellate 1990)
In re Paternity & Custody of Baby Boy A., No. A07-452, 2007 WL 4304448 (Minn. Ct. App. Dec. 11, 2007)

Classes and Seminars

Speaker: "Assisted Reproductive Technology: What Every Family Law Attorney Should Know," Minnesota Continuing Legal Education Annual Family Law Conference, 2002
Speaker: "Assisted Reproductive Technology: What Every Estate Planning Attorney Should Know," Minnesota Continuing Legal Education Annual Probate and Trust Law Conference, 2002
Speaker: "The Difference Between U.S. and European Ovum Donor Programs: Paternalism versus Self-Determination," Third Annual International Ovum Donation Conference, London, England, 2005
Poster Presenter: "Can Private Ovum Donation Agencies and Fertility Clinics Coexist in an Imperfect Universe?" ASRM Convention, Montreal, Canada, 2005
Speaker: "International Fertility Tourism: Why Patients Cross International Borders, and What Can Happen When They Do," Fourth Annual International Ovum Donation Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2006
Speaker: “Intended Parents, Ovum Donors, and the Children They Create: What Ethical Duties Do We Owe, and to Whom?” Fifth Annual International Ovum Donation Conference, Buck County, Pennsylvania, 2007
Speaker: “Twenty Ways a Family Lawyer Might Encounter an ART Case,” Minnesota Continuing Legal Education Annual Family Law Conference, 2007
Speaker: “Legislative Options in Assisted Reproduction Technology Law,” American Bar Association Mid-year Conference, Los Angeles, California, 2007
Speaker: “Ten (or Fifteen) Ways ART Should Change Your Estate Planning Documents NOW,” Minnesota Continuing Legal Education Annual Probate and Trust Law Conference, 2007
Speaker: “Fertility Tourism and Its Effect on Third-Party Reproduction,” American Fertility Association Symposium, San Francisco, California, 2008
Guest Lecturer: “Assisted Reproductive Technology and the Law,” Class, Professor Charles P. Kindregan, Jr., Suffolk University Law School, 2008
Speaker: “Fertility Tourism: Local, National, and International Issues in Assisted Reproduction Law,” Minnesota Continuing Legal Education Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Conference, 2008
Speaker “Establishing Legal Parentage in ART Cases,” Minnesota Continuing Legal Education Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Law Conference, 2008
Speaker: “(At Least) Ten Things Every Family Lawyer Should Know About ART Law,” American Bar Association Family Law Section Fall Conference, 2008
Speaker: “Conflicts of Interest, Conflicts of Law, and Other Intriguing Ethical Issues: The Who, What, When, and Where of Practicing ART Law,” American Bar Association Family Law Section Fall Conference, 2008
Speaker: “Legislative Issues Regarding Third Party-Reproduction,” Lavender Bar Association, St. Paul, Minnesota, 2009
Speaker: “Niche Practice Areas: One Might Be Right for You,” Minnesota Continuing Legal Education The New Lawyer Experience, 2009
Guest Lecturer: “ABA Model Act,” Class, Professor Charles P. Kindregan, Jr., Suffolk University Law School, March 25, 2009
Speaker: “Seven Things Every Family Lawyer Should Know About ART Law,” Minnesota State Bar Association Family Law Institute, April, 2009
Speaker: “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Legislative Models for Practitioners, Drafters, and Lawmakers Considering ART Legislation,” American Bar Association Family Law Section Fall Conference, 2009
Guest Lecturer: “Practical Aspects of Practicing ART Law,” Class, Professor Mary Pat Byrn, William Mitchell College of Law, November 3, 2009
Speaker: “Donor Egg, Donor Sperm, and Embryo Donation,” Panel, RESOLVE Conference, 2010
Speaker: "Legal, Practical and Ethical Issues Related to Egg Donation," American Association of Tissue Banks Annual Spring Meeting, 2010
Speaker: "What Every Estate Planning Attorney Needs to Know About Assisted Reproduction - Avoiding Malpractice By Learning About Sex," Minnesota Continuing Legal Education Annual Probate and Trust Law Conference, 2010
Panel Speaker: “Third Party Reproduction – Landmark Cases Presented by Legal Experts,” 2010 SMART ART XI Conference, August 6, 2010
Speaker: “Reproductive Council Session, Legal, Practical and Ethical Issues Related to Egg Donation,” The 34th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Tissue Banks, September 11, 2010
Speaker: “Third Party Reproduction – Landmark Cases,” SMART ART Highlights Conference, October 2010
Speaker: “Roadblocks in Cross-Border Reproductive Care: Are Parents Getting What They Expect and Deserve When They Have Children in Other Countries?” American Association of Tissue Banks Annual Spring Meeting, 2011
Speaker: “What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You: What Happens When the Legal System and ART Law Intersect?” American Bar Association Section of Family Law Spring Meeting, 2011
Speaker: “Who’s Your Daddy? Perspectives on Creative Conception and the Law,” Minnesota Continuing Legal Education Annual Probate and Trust Law Conference, 2011
Speaker: “LGBT Family Planning: What’s it to you?” Minnesota Lavender Bar Association Conference. January 28, 2012
Speaker: "International Surrogacy: Protecting the best interest of the children." Clara Conference in France. February 16, 2012
Speaker: "Walking the Tightrope, Part I: How to Negotiate and Draft an Effective and Comprehensive Gestational Carrier Agreement." ABA FLS Miami Conference. April 21, 2012
Speaker: "Brave New World: How to Discuss the Definition of Issue with Clients and Draft Language to Address Various Approaches." The 38th Annual Probate & Trust Law Section Conference. June 4-5, 2012
Speaker: "Assisted Reproductive Technology and the Law: How to Blend ART into Your Law Practice." MSBA CLE, 2012 Boutique Law “Niche” Law Practices for Fun and Profit. August 21, 2012
Speaker: "What Every Estate Planning Attorney Should Know About ART Law." CLE at MoreLaw Minnesota. September 19, 2012
Speaker: William Mitchell College of Law, ART Law Presentation. November, 14, 2012
Speaker: Australia Surrogacy Conference, "How Different US States Deal With Surrogacy." Melbourne, Australia, March 6, 2013
Speaker: MN Department of Health Conference. May, 7, 2013
Speaker: Men Having Babies Surrogacy Conference, February 13-15, 2014, Israel
Speaker: 17th Annual Family Law Conference, March 12-14, 2014, Cape Town, South Africa
Speaker: Biotechnology Law Conference, April 3-5, 2014, Budapest, Hungry
Speaker: “What do costs come from, how do they vary? What needs to change?” Men Having Babies, London Conference, March 21, 2015
Speaker: Family Law Section Webinar, April 14, 2015
Speaker: Men Having Babies, Brussels Conference, May 2, 2015, "Legal and Societal Challenges for Gay Fatherhood Across Europe, and The Road Ahead"
Speaker: Minnesota County Attorney's Association Child Support Conference, June 12, 2015, "Establishing Legal Parentage in ART Cases."
Resource/Contributor: “She’s Having our Baby: Surrogacy is on the Rise as In-Vitro Improves,” Wall Street Journal, February 4, 2003
Resource/Contributor: “Fertility Treatment Laws Proposed,” The Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 26, 2003
Resource/Contributor: “Two Moms, a Secret Pact – and a Baby Boy,” People Magazine, April 3, 2006
Resource/Contributor: “Miracles for Sale,” Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 21, 2007
Resource/Contributor: “Pregnant Pause,” City Pages, June 18, 2008
Resource/Contributor: “Delivering Babies (No Hospital Required),” Law and Politics, August/September 2008
Resource/Contributor: “The Law and the Unborn,” The Brian King Show, BBC Radio 4, April 30, 2009
Resource/Contributor: “Local Lawyer has Developed a Fertile Niche,” Minnesota Lawyer, January 18, 2010
Featured Guest: “Marion Edwards Show,” Radio Variety Show, January 26, 2010
Featured Guest: “Lawyers and Infertility,” Health Radio Net, February 9. 2010
Resource/Contributor: “Human Egg Trade,” The Walrus, April 2010
Resource/Contributor: “Fertility’s New Legal Front,” Wall Street Journal, August 3, 2010
Resource/Contributor: “...and Baby makes Litigation,” ABA Journal, March 2011
Resource/Contributor: "Kansas sperm donor case. Legal parentage of known sperm donors for lesbian couples." WCCO interview, January 4, 2013
Resource/Contributor: “Just a sperm donor, or the legal dad? Case in Kansas." Star Tribune, January 6, 2013
Featured Guest: “News 8,” Television interview regarding Assisted Reproduction Issues in the United States, April 23, 2010
Featured Guest: “Daytime Toronto,” Television interview regarding Canadian Infertility Awareness Week, April 27, 2010
Featured Guest: “NTN 24 TV Columbia,” Television interview regarding surrogacy in the United States, July 15, 2010
Featured Guest, 107.1 Radio with Tuft Lach Family Law firm, March 24, 2013
Featured Guest: KTTC-TV, Television interview, featured story done on surrogacy in Minnesota. Rochester, MN April, 25, 2013
Editorial Author: “How many actual surrogates did you interview,” St. Paul Pioneer Press, Friday, April 4, 2014
Speaker: “How to Structure and Negotiate Gestational Carrier Agreements.” Family Law Institute. Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Speaker: " The Right To Procreate vs. the Rights of the Child: Should We Agree to Disagree? Fundamental Social and Political Differences between the U.S. and Other Countries that Bear on International Regulation of Surrogacy." 2016 Spring CLE Conference, Nassau, Bahamas, 2016

Qualifications

Bar Admissions

Minnesota, 1982
U.S. District Court District of Minnesota, 1982
Wisconsin, 2011

Other Affiliations

American Bar Association (Real Property, Probate and Trust Law, Law Practice Management, Family Law Sections) (Member)
Reproductive & Genetic Technology Committee, Family Law Section of the American Bar Association (Past Chair)
Minnesota State Bar Association (Probate and Trust Law, Real Property Sections) (Family Law Section, Past Chair, Member)
Hennepin County Bar Association (Member)
Assisted Reproductive Technology Sub-Committee, 2001 Minnesota Legislative Task Force To evaluate the 2000 Uniform Parentage Act (Co-Chair)
American Bar Association, 1982 - 2015 (Member)
Minnesota State Bar Association, 1982 - 2015 (Member)

Past Positions

Stillwater High School, Stillwater, MN, High School English Teacher, 1974 - 1979
McGuigan and McGuigan, Associate Attorney, 1983 - 1984
Luther, Ballentine, and Carruthers, Associate Attorney, 1984 - 1985

Fraternities and Sororities

Delta Epsilon Sigma

Articles

Published Works

Legislation to Govern Assisted Reproductive Technologies Introduced and Lobbied in 2002 and 2003 Sessions of the Minnesota Legislature
"The Blessed Trinity and Beyond: Third-Party 'Contract'-ions," a Series of Articles on Surrogacy Agreements, RESOLVE Quarterly Newsletter, Fall, 2005
"The Use of Pre-Birth Parentage Orders in Surrogacy Proceedings,", ABA Family Law Quarterly, Fall, 2005
Clarifying the Law of ART: The New American Bar Association Model Act Governing Assisted Reproductive Technology, ABA Family Law Quarterly, Summer, 2008 Co-Author, with Charles P. Kindregan, Jr.
I’m a Divorce Lawyer! So Why Should I read About ART?, The ABA Section of Family Law, Family Advocate, Fall, Vol. 34, No. 2, 2011