Balbach & Davenport Legal
Legal Service Provider
About
Last updated on Jan 29, 2026 03:51 PM
Balbach & Davenport Legal is a virtual family law firm serving clients throughout North Carolina. Our practice focuses on assisted reproductive technology law, helping intended parents navigate surrogacy agreements, egg and sperm donor contracts, pre-birth orders, and parentage establishment. We also offer estate planning tailored to modern families and collaborative divorce services. North Carolina has no comprehensive surrogacy statutes and hasn't adopted the Uniform Parentage Act which means families building through ART need an attorney who knows how to work within the gaps. That's what we do. We craft creative legal solutions to ensure your parental rights are protected from day one. We work with LGBTQ+ couples, single parents by choice, and anyone whose path to parenthood doesn't fit the traditional mold. We believe all families deserve comprehensive legal protection and an attorney who sees them, respects them, and fights
Website:
www.balbachdavenportlegal.com
Phone:
910-701-0236
Employees:
2
Founded:
2025
Licensed in states:
NC
Conference Presentations:
Services
Last updated on Feb 03, 2026 10:52 AM
Law Services
Donation Agreements (known and unidentified gamete/embryo donation agreements)
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Egg Donation
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Sperm Donation
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Embryo Donation
Surrogacy Agreements
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Gestational Surrogacy
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Traditional Surrogacy
Establishing Parentage
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Parentage Order
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Related Adoption Services
Trust and Estates Services
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Gestational Surrogate
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Intended Parent
Promotions
Membership Benefits Program
- Free Virtual Legal Consultation
Team Members
Last updated on Jan 29, 2026 03:57 PM
Melenni Balbach
- Attorney & Co-Founder
Melenni Balbach is co-founder of Balbach & Davenport Legal, where her practice focuses on assisted reproductive technology law, estate planning, and collaborative family law. She has practiced family law since 2021 and has been handling ART matters since 2022, representing intended parents, surrogates, and donors in surrogacy agreements, donor contracts, and pre-birth order proceedings throughout North Carolina. Melenni is passionate about serving non-traditional families and helping clients navigate a legal landscape that hasn't caught up with how modern families actually look. She brings a straightforward, approachable style to her practice because legal support should feel empowering, not intimidating. Melenni is a North Carolina native and has been recognized as a 2026 Super Lawyers Rising Star. She is a member of the Family Law Institute of the National LGBTQ+ Bar and the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. When she's not practicing law, she runs on coffee and figuring out how to make legal education actually interesting.
Attributes & Policies
GPAP I
GPAP II
MBP