Family law for men · Australia-wide
Thirty years inside the family courts, on the side of men who'd rather get it right than get even. Property, parenting, protection orders, divorce. Brisbane, and the rest of Australia by phone and video.
“Here's the cold truth: most men don't plan separation. They react to it.”
Tracey McMillan, Divorce Is F*cked
Founded by Tracey McMillan. Author, “Divorce Is F*cked”. Every matter starts with a 60-minute strategy session, a written plan, a fixed fee, and a conflict check first.
Why a men's firm
Most men get one of two lawyers. The big firm that treats you like a file number and bills you to find out what happens next. Or the grievance lawyer who tells you the system is rigged, agrees with everything you say, and runs your case like a war he is paid to lose slowly.
Forge is neither. Tracey McMillan has spent thirty years inside the family courts, most of it watching good men make the same avoidable mistakes in the same first ninety days. Forge exists to stop you making them.
Forge is for men. It is never against mothers. The day family law for men becomes a war on women is the day it stops working, for your kids most of all.
What we handle
Property / Financial Settlement
Property settlement, super splits, business structures, the family home. The decisions you make in the first ninety days set the next ten years. I'll show you which ones, in what order, and what they cost.
What to expect →Parenting
Consent orders, time-with arrangements, relocation, the May 2024 reforms. I build these around what your children actually need, not around what feels like winning the week.
What to expect →Domestic violence orders
Defending DVOs you shouldn't be on. Applying for the ones you need. Navigating cross-orders. Strategy first, panic never. And never on a Saturday-night text thread.
What to expect →Divorce
Less interesting than property and parenting, but it has its own twelve-month clock and most men don't realise they've started it. I handle the application so you don't trip the time-bars that matter later.
What to expect →
The book · Tracey McMillan
The field guide for men who've been blindsided, frozen out, or quietly running the loop at 3am. Thirty years of family-court work, ten frameworks, no padding.
Read the first three chapters, free.
No PDF clutter. A clean reader on your phone or laptop, and you're reading in under a minute.
Start reading free →Or buy the paperback
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The Forge vocabulary
Once a pattern has a name, you can see it. Once you can see it, you can decide what to do about it. These are Tracey's.
The reptile making your worst decisions for you. Fight, flight, freeze. Wired before you could read.
The aggressive lawyer who runs your case as their personal battlefield. Spot them before you sign.
The decision-making tool that keeps regret at bay. You'll use it weekly.
The performative public stage of separation. The thing that costs you the most and helps you the least.
Straight answers
Book a sixty-minute strategy session. You walk out with a written plan and a fixed quote, before you sign anything.
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