What Really Happens to Your Assets During Divorce?

Australians pursuing international surrogacy should always have a contingency plan. This article explains why planning is essential, outlines the real risks families face when surrogacy crosses borders, and provides a practical checklist to protect children from becoming stateless or stranded. Why a back-up plan matters When people think about international surrogacy they often imagine a… Read More »In Surrogacy, Always Have a Back-Up Plan

Separation can quickly become an expensive, emotionally draining process, or it can be managed in a way that protects dignity, finances, and the best interests of the children. This article offers practical, experience-driven advice on minimising both the financial and emotional costs of separation and divorce. Why separation becomes costly, and how it usually doesn’t… Read More »How to Minimise the Cost of Separation & Divorce

Jurisdictions tend to respond to overseas commercial surrogacy by criminalising their own residents for seeking surrogacy abroad. That experiment began in Queensland in 1988 and has since been copied in other places, most recently, Ireland and Italy. After watching how this played out in Australia and abroad, I want to explain plainly why criminalising overseas… Read More »Criminalising Overseas Surrogacy: Why Ireland, Italy, and Queensland’s “Experiment” Will Fail