Jennifer Wademan

Jennifer is an experienced  family law expert with an extensive international family law practice. Over the course of her career she has successfully litigated cases on issues in international surrogacy and inter country adoption. Jennifer began her career as the Judges’ Clerk to the Principal Family Court Judge, before advising the New Zealand Government in anticipation of its United Nations examination on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. For more than a decade now she has been a practising family lawyer, and has successfully led cases in surrogacy and adoptions.    Her skill and experience is recognised by the Court such that she is regularly appointed as Lawyer for Child. She has particular expertise in assisting with New Zealanders engaged in surrogacy in Georgia