Page Provan Family and Fertility Lawyers
Lawyer · Brisbane
Surrogacy, fertility and donor conception, and family law, working with director Stephen Page.
LawyerFamily & Fertility LawBrisbane
The law behind life’s most important relationships.
I am a lawyer at Page Provan Family and Fertility Lawyers in Brisbane. My work is in surrogacy, fertility and donor conception, and family law: the legal side of how families are formed, recognised and reorganised.
Current role
Lawyer, Page Provan Family and Fertility Lawyers
Practice
Surrogacy, fertility and family law
Based in
Brisbane, Queensland
About
About Evren Kurt
- Families.
- Parenthood.
- Relationships.
- Recognition.
- The law that connects them.
I am a lawyer at Page Provan Family and Fertility Lawyers, a Brisbane firm practising in family, surrogacy and fertility law. I work closely with director Stephen Page on surrogacy and fertility matters for intended parents, birth parents and donors in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, and on family law matters including parenting, property and financial agreements.
Before joining Page Provan I worked in private practice on the Gold Coast and in the regulatory team of the Queensland Law Society. I first qualified and practised as a lawyer in İstanbul, and I work in English, Turkish and French.
I practise as an employed lawyer. Legal services are provided by Page Provan Family and Fertility Lawyers
Practice areas
The law of family & parenthood.
Explore the legal pathways that shape how families are formed, recognised and supported through change.
Collection i
Creating families
Surrogacy, donor conception, egg donation, embryos, international and interstate surrogacy, legal parentage and posthumous reproduction.
Explore the collection Collection iiNavigating family change
Parenting arrangements, divorce and separation, property settlements, financial agreements, child support, dispute resolution and family violence.
Explore the collectionPage Provan Family and Fertility Lawyers advises across all of these areas. My own practice focuses on surrogacy, fertility and donor conception, together with family law matters. General information only, not legal advice.
Experience
Current practice, then the record.
My current role comes first. The complete record, with titles, dates and qualifications, is available in full below.
- Queensland Law SocietyExternal Interventions team
- Ashworth LawyersParalegal, practical legal training
- Gall Standfield & Smith SolicitorsLaw clerk, Gold Coast
- Muhittin Alparslan Law FirmLawyer, İstanbul
- Esenyel & PartnersBar trainee and summer clerk, İstanbul
01Current practice
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Jul 2026
to now- Law graduate from July 2026; lawyer from September 2026
- Domestic surrogacy matters from first consultation to parentage orders and birth registration, under the Surrogacy Act 2010 (Qld) and the Surrogacy Act 2010 (NSW)
- Advice on international surrogacy, including risks in destination countries, citizenship by descent and parenting orders on return to Australia
- Assisting on urgent applications to the Supreme Court of New South Wales concerning the posthumous use of reproductive material
- Known donor agreements, and the export and use of stored gametes and embryos
- Parenting, property and binding financial agreement matters in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
02Earlier Australian experience
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May to
Jun 2026- Attended court with the firm’s lawyers and counsel
- Written submissions on sentence, supported by tables of comparable sentencing authorities
- Research memoranda on state and Commonwealth offences, and practice guides on digital evidence and suppression orders
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Mar 2024
to Jun 2026- Supported the team exercising the Society’s regulatory powers under the Legal Profession Act 2007 (Qld)
- Worked on external interventions into law practices and trust account investigations
- Managed the team’s central inbox, triaging enquiries from practitioners, former clients and the public
- Supervised the safe custody of wills, deeds and client documents
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Sep 2021
to Feb 2024- Wills, enduring powers of attorney and applications for grants of probate in the Supreme Court of Queensland
- Residential and commercial conveyancing from contract to electronic settlement
- More than 200 files managed through their full lifecycle
03International experience
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Aug 2018
to Dec 2019- Court proceedings concerning property resumptions and valuation objections
- Titles, planning approvals and land access for development and mining projects, including municipal hearings
- Environmental enforcement matters, including the successful defence of two environmental prosecutions
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Jul 2017
to Jul 2018- Statutory traineeship with court attendance in İstanbul and supervised practice
- Supported charter party, cargo, marine insurance and vessel arrest litigation
- Vessel sale and purchase agreements for shipowners and insurers
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2014
to 2016- First experience of legal practice, in maritime and commercial law
04Admission and education
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2026
- Name entered in the Register of Practitioners of the High Court of Australia, 2026
- Member of the Queensland Law Society
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2026
- The practical legal training qualification required for admission in Queensland
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2026
- Course developed with the University of Oxford’s Faculty of Law, Saïd Business School and Blavatnik School of Government; certificate issued by the Saïd Business School
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2025
- Individual subjects set by the Legal Practitioners Admissions Board to complete an overseas law degree for admission in Queensland
- GPA 4.85 of 7, completed while working full time
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2018
- Admitted after the statutory one-year bar traineeship; a current member of the Istanbul Bar Association
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2017
- Bologna-accredited law degree, later assessed for admission in Queensland
Degree a completed degreeAcademic subjects individual subjects, not a degreeAdmission admission to practise
Credentials
Admission and memberships.
Formal admissions, professional memberships and qualifications. Dates appear in the full professional record.
- iAdmitted as a lawyer of the Supreme Court of QueenslandPractising as an employed lawyer at Page Provan Family and Fertility Lawyers
- iiName entered in the Register of Practitioners of the High Court of AustraliaThe register kept by the High Court for practitioners admitted in a state or territory
- iiiMember of the Queensland Law SocietyThe professional body for Queensland solicitors
- ivMember of the Istanbul Bar AssociationAdmitted to practise as a lawyer in Türkiye
Education
Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice, The College of Law
Australian law subjects for admission, QUT and USQ
Bachelor of Laws, Maltepe University, İstanbul
Professional development
AI, Justice and the Rule of Law, University of Oxford
Languages
English and Turkish fluently; French at a working level
Insights
Notes on family, law and borders.
Articles appear here only once complete and reviewed. The pieces below are in preparation.
Understanding surrogacy in Queensland
Who can enter a surrogacy arrangement, what must happen before conception, and how a parentage order transfers legal parentage.
Known donor arrangements in Australia
Parentage, expectations and written agreements between donors and the families they help create.
Parentage orders and the legal recognition of families
Why a birth certificate alone may not reflect a child’s legal parents, and how the courts close that gap.
Articles contain general information only and are not legal advice. Publication dates and reading times appear once each piece is published.
Contact
Let’s connect.
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