Practice areas

Divorce

Requirements, process and what to expect, whether the divorce is agreed or contested.

• Requirements and process
• Contested and consensual divorce
• Divorce for foreigners and expats
• Recognition of foreign divorces

Personal separation

Separation by public deed or through the courts, and where mediation fits in.

• Consensual separation by public deed
• Contested separation
• Family Court mediation

Annulment

When a marriage can be declared null, and how this differs from divorce and church annulment.

Children

Care and custody, access and relocation, with the child at the centre of every decision.

• Care and custody
• Access
• Relocation

Maintenance

Child and spousal maintenance, including variation and enforcement.

• Child and spousal maintenance
• Variation and enforcement

Division of property

The community of acquests, the matrimonial home and dividing what you share.

• The community of acquests
• The matrimonial home

Cohabitation

Rights and obligations for couples who live together without marrying (Cap. 614).

• The cohabitation agreement and certificate
• Rights and duties of cohabitants
• Ending a cohabitation

Marriage contracts

Separation of estates, and agreements made before or during a marriage.

Cross-border cases

Foreign divorces, moving abroad with children and international child abduction.

• Brussels IIb
• International child abduction (Hague 1980)