Legal Expertise. Personal Understanding.
Kathleen McRoberts, J.D., LL.M.
Founder & Senior Counsel
In this field, it's common for a paralegal to manage your file while an attorney simply signs off at the end. Not here. Every agreement, every filing, every phone call is Kathleen's — a licensed, practicing attorney, J.D. — from your first conversation through your parentage order.
Kathleen McRoberts doesn't just practice fertility law — she was the first attorney in Utah and Idaho to build a full-time practice exclusively around it. Since 2003, she's guided hundreds of families through surrogacy, egg donation, sperm donation, and embryo donation, bringing the kind of experience, innovation, and speed that comes from doing one thing better than anyone else in the region.
She also holds an LL.M. in Taxation — a level of depth most family-building attorneys simply don't have, and one that matters the moment a surrogacy arrangement touches trust accounts or compensation. When you work with Kathleen, you're not hiring a vendor — you're gaining someone who's genuinely on your team, invested in getting your family home safely and well.
One Lawyer. One Area of Law. Mastered.
Most attorneys who touch third-party reproduction practice it alongside family law, adoption, or estate planning. Kathleen made a different choice: build a practice around this area of law exclusively. Surrogacy and donation agreements aren't a sideline here — they're the entire practice, every single day.
Kathleen is no jack of all trades — she is a master of one. When every matter in the office is a fertility matter, nothing about your situation is new here. The unusual insurance question, new forms required by vital records, the once-in-a-decade complication — Kathleen has seen it, solved it, and built it into the process.
Mastery is also where innovation comes from. After hundreds of families, you stop accepting "that's how it's always been done" — video walkthroughs of every agreement, streamlined filings, a process that keeps getting easier for clients. One thing, done exceptionally well.
Where others file fifteen documents, this office files three. That gap is twenty years of learning what a case truly needs — and the confidence to leave out what it doesn't.
Personal Attention at Every Step
You Talk to Kathleen
Free consultations — by phone, Zoom, or in person — are with Kathleen directly, not a paralegal or intake coordinator. Every case starts with a real conversation about your specific situation.
Documents, Explained Personally
Before you sign anything, Kathleen records a personalized Loom video walking you through your documents line by line, in plain language — an innovation no other reproductive law attorney offers, and consistently cited as a highlight of working with this office.
Built for International Clients
Trust account management, Zoom consultations, WhatsApp communication, online notary, post-birth documentation, birth certificates, and apostille are all handled with international Intended Parents and Donors in mind — distance is never a barrier to the same level of care.
By Your Side, From the First Call to the Birth Certificate
For Kathleen, this was never just a practice area. It's the chance to stand beside families at the most vulnerable, hopeful moment of their lives — a moment she has lived herself.
Every family she works with becomes personal to her, and she stays invested until you're holding your baby — not just until the paperwork clears.
An Advocate Who Has Your Back
Serving as a gestational carrier means putting your body, your time, and your heart on the line for someone else's family — and you deserve an attorney who takes that just as seriously. Kathleen represents carriers with the same rigor as intended parents: reviewing your agreement line by line, protecting your compensation, lost wages, and medical decisions, and standing ready to advocate for you if anything along the way doesn't go as it should.
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