For over 30 years, Kurt has been assisting families with the legal aspects of adoption and assisted fertility, including gestational surrogacy and gamete and embryo donation.

In 2018, Kurt helped to write a sweeping overhaul of Vermont’s Parentage Act, finally providing legal security for Vermonters growing their families through surrogacy and other assisted reproductive technologies. The act provides for pre-birth parentage orders for such families and provides an easy path for some sex-couples to secure parentage rights for their children without having to go through second-parent adoptions.  He continues to be active in legislative advocacy and recently testified before the House and Senate Judiciary Committees in support of the recently passed Confirmatory Adoption bill, which became effective July 1, 2025.

Kurt is a Fellow of the Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys, an invitation-only national academy of attorneys who have distinguished themselves in the fields of adoption and ART law.

Kurt has been selected by his peers for inclusion in New England Super Lawyers in the area of family law. In 2014, he joined the top 1% of attorneys in Vermont to be selected as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Attorneys (ACTL).