Australian Family and Fertility Law

Send us Fan Mail One sperm donor. 550 children. All conceived through unregulated private donation. Stephen Page , Director at Page Provan Family & Fertility Lawyers, examines the shocking cases emerging from unregulated private sperm donation — including a woman in California who discovered she has 47 half-siblings, and two men in Quebec who fathered 550 children through private sperm donatio...

Send us Fan Mail Ireland just changed its surrogacy laws — and it's complicated. Stephen Page , Director at Page Provan Family & Fertility Lawyers, breaks down Ireland's new Health Assisted Human Reproduction Act 2024 and what it means for Irish intended parents pursuing surrogacy. The new legislation legalises domestic altruistic surrogacy through AHRRA approval and parental orders...

Send us Fan Mail Hugh Jackman reportedly won't sign a pre-nup with Sutton Foster — and that's raising eyebrows over his $170 million fortune. Bruce Provan , Managing Director at Page Provan Family & Fertility Lawyers, uses this celebrity case to explain how pre-nups work in Australia, where they're called Binding Financial Agreements, and why they matter especially in second mar...

Send us Fan Mail Marching in front of 250,000 people who support LGBTQ+ parenting — it never gets old. Stephen Page , Director at Page Provan Family & Fertility Lawyers, shares his experience marching in the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras for the fourth time, this time alongside his husband Mitchell and daughter Elizabeth as part of the Rainbow Families contingent. From holding the gay dads...

Send us Fan Mail The US Supreme Court just heard one of the most consequential cases for international surrogacy in decades — and it didn't go well for President Trump's executive order. Stephen Page , Director at Page Provan Family & Fertility Lawyers, breaks down last week's historic Supreme Court hearing on birthright citizenship and what it means for Australian intended pare...

Send us Fan Mail Waiting for WA's new surrogacy and fertility laws to take effect? You're not alone—and here's the frustrating truth: nobody knows the exact timeline yet. Stephen Page, Director at Page Provan Family & Fertility Lawyers, provides a quick update on Western Australia's Assisted Reproductive Technology and Surrogacy Act, which passed Parliament in December 2024...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes a moment just hits differently. In this brief but heartfelt episode, Stephen Page shares a deeply personal reflection after speaking at the Growing Families Conference in Melbourne—a gathering focused on surrogacy and donor conception for Australian intended parents. After a day spent helping LGBTQ+ couples navigate their paths to parenthood, Stephen boarded his flight h...

Send us Fan Mail Does undergoing IVF increase a woman's risk of developing cancer? It is a question that has loomed over the fertility industry for decades. In this episode of the Australian Family and Fertility Law Podcast, Stephen Page shares vital new data from a massive study involving over 417,000 women who underwent medically assisted reproduction. The research, conducted by prominent A...

Send us Fan Mail Considering surrogacy in Mexico? Critical legal updates you can't afford to miss. Stephen Page, Director at Page Provan Family & Fertility Lawyers, breaks down two groundbreaking Mexican Supreme Court decisions that are reshaping surrogacy timelines and processes for Australian intended parents. Mexico has gone from a niche surrogacy destination to a booming market — surr...

Send us Fan Mail Colombia's latest attempt to restrict surrogacy for foreigners has failed, and that's big news for Australian intended parents. Here's what you need to know. Stephen Page, Director at Page Provan Family & Fertility Lawyers, explains what happened to Colombia's controversial surrogacy restriction bill, and what it means for Australians considering surrogacy...

Send us Fan Mail Separating with significant assets and superannuation? Bruce Provan, Managing Director at Page Provan Family & Fertility Lawyers, explains what makes high net worth family law cases different and what you should expect when dividing assets worth $10 million or more. High net worth property settlements involve the same legal principles as any other family law matter, but with a...

Send us Fan Mail Planning surrogacy in Iran? This urgent update could change everything. Stephen Page, Director at Page Provan Family & Fertility Lawyers, issues a critical warning about current conditions in Tehran that make surrogacy travel extremely risky for Australian intended parents. Iran has been a destination for Australian intended parents of Iranian heritage seeking surrogacy servic...

Send us Fan Mail What do the numbers really tell us about surrogacy in Australia? Stephen Page, Director at Page Provan Family & Fertility Lawyers, reveals some eye-opening statistics from the Law Council of Australia's recent surrogacy conference that raise serious questions about citizenship, statelessness, and why Australia's surrogacy rate is double that of New Zealand.  In this...

Send us Fan Mail Which countries should you absolutely avoid for international surrogacy? Stephen Page, Director at Page Provan Family & Fertility Lawyers, breaks down Israel's groundbreaking "naughty list" approach to protecting intended parents and surrogates from exploitation. In this episode of the Australian Family & Fertility Law Podcast, Stephen discusses Israel'...

Send us Fan Mail Thinking about representing yourself in family court but unsure where to start? In this episode of the Page Provan Australian Family and Fertility Law Podcast, Managing Director Bruce Provan breaks down everything you need to know about self-representation in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia. Bruce explains the rise of self-represented litigants, the option of unb...

Send us Fan Mail For every child born through surrogacy in Australia, four are born overseas. And it's not because Australians want to leave—it's because our laws are forcing them out. Stephen Page of Page Provan Family and Fertility Lawyers has spent 15 years fighting for reform. A decade ago, a House of Representatives committee recommended urgent national change. A decade later? Austr...

Send us Fan Mail Somewhere right now, a child born through international surrogacy doesn't know who their legal parents are—and no international law exists to protect them. Here's why that matters. For over a decade, Stephen Page of Page Provan Family and Fertility Lawyers has been fighting for international reform. In 2011, he was invited to lead a global effort to create a Hague Conven...

Send us Fan Mail Australia is the ONLY Western democracy without a national human rights act—so why are courts overseas protecting reproductive freedom while we're falling behind? While Canada, the US, the UK, and New Zealand have all enshrined human rights protections in law, Australia remains the odd one out. And the stakes? They're higher than you think—especially when it comes to IVF...

Send us Fan Mail Is surrogacy a fundamental human right? From landmark Supreme Court rulings to stateless children caught between borders — the intersection of human rights and surrogacy law is more complex (and more urgent) than you might think. In this episode of the Australian Family and Fertility Law Podcast, Stephen Page of Page Provan Family and Fertility Lawyers breaks down the key human ri...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Stephen Page shares his deeply personal fertility and surrogacy journey — a story of hope, heartbreak, resilience, and ultimately, becoming a dad 👶💙 From knowing at just four years old that he wanted to be a father, to confronting infertility, emotional darkness, miscarriage, an ectopic pregnancy, and a four-year surrogacy journey, Stephen speaks openly about wh...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Stephen Page shares his professional journey into surrogacy and fertility law — a career that has spanned almost four decades and more than 2,100 surrogacy journeys. Following on from his personal fertility story, Stephen explains how lived experience, early family law work, advocacy for LGBTQ+ families, and a deep commitment to human rights shaped his path into o...

Send us Fan Mail Can gay men really become fathers through surrogacy in Australia? Absolutely—and family law expert Stephen Page has helped over 1,000 LGBTQ+ individuals make that dream a reality.  In this heartfelt episode of the Australian Family and Fertility Law Podcast, Stephen Page from Page Provan Family and Fertility Lawyers shares his deeply personal journey as a gay man, proud husband, a...

Send us Fan Mail Can a gay couple finally secure legal parentage through traditional surrogacy in the ACT?  In this episode of the Australian Family and Fertility Law Podcast , Australia's leading surrogacy lawyer Stephen Page breaks down a groundbreaking 2024 ACT Supreme Court case that's changing the game for intended parents across Australia.  What You'll Learn:   ⚖️ How the ACT&...

Send us Fan Mail One of the World's leading surrogacy lawyers, Stephen Page takes you behind the scenes of the SEEDS (Society for Ethical Egg Donation and Surrogacy) conference in Orange County, California—and what he discovered challenged common assumptions about the surrogacy industry. In this episode of The Australian Family and Fertility Law Podcast, Stephen shares eye-opening insights fr...

Send us Fan Mail The surrogacy world is reeling. Surro Connections, a well-known American surrogacy agency, has collapsed overnight—leaving hundreds of intended parents stranded, life savings vanished, and dreams shattered. The FBI has raided their offices. Records have been shredded. And this isn't an isolated incident—it's the SECOND major surrogacy-related financial collapse in the Un...