Michelle specialises in all aspects of family law including complex property and parenting matters, child protection law, and public and administrative law. Michelle regularly appears in cases that involve an element of international law including Hague convention matters, forum cases and matters involving the enforcement of overseas orders for spousal and/or child maintenance.
Michelle appears in both divisions of the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia and the New South Wales Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
Prior to being called to the bar, Michelle practised almost exclusively in family law and child protection law as a Solicitor. She became an Accredited Specialist in Family Law with the NSW Law Society in 2005.
Michelle has been the author of the Northern Territory Family Law component for Lexis Nexis since 2011.