Every separation brings with it significant changes which must be understood, and requires planning and often judicial intervention.
Divorce & Separation
Married couples
- Divorce
- Separation
- Division of assets : prenuptual agreements, different matrimonial regimes
Unmarried couples :registered (by a Civil Solidarity Pact) and non-registered (live-in partnerships)
- Actions for compensation
- Division of assets
Children
- Filiation – proof of parentage
- Parental authority
- Custody : residence, visiting rights
- Protection of minors, guardianship, emancipation (procedures in children’s court or guardianship court)
- Child support
International (cross-border) aspects of family law
- Divorce or separation where one of the spouses or partners is not French or lives abroad
- Cross-border child abduction
- International adoption
- Enforcement of foreign judgments in France or of French judgments abroad
Criminal law aspects of family law
- Failure to respect child custody agreements
- Failure to pay child support
- Domestic violence