PERSONAL LAW AND FAMILY LAW

The family law department at BKP & Partners provides help and assistance for individuals in all aspects of their family life from birth to death. They advise and assist their clients with regard to judicial proceedings or appointments with professionals (notaries, experts, etc.). They can advise on both national law and international law in all civil and criminal aspects of personal and family law.

The lawyers in the family department are trained in participatory approaches.

MARRIAGE / PACS

The firm can advise you in the event of any issues relating to marriages or civil partnership agreements.
They can act on your behalf in judicial proceedings relating to:

> Contributions to household expenses
> Marriage annulment.

ADOPTION

The family law department at BKP & Partners can help you prepare the papers for a simple adoption. They can draft the adoption application and assist you during hearings.

DIVORCE / SEPARATION / PACS DISSOLUTION

The firm has the expertise to advise you about strategic choices before a separation, divorce or PACS dissolution, in terms of inheritance and child custody.

They will defend your interests on all points regarding a separation:

> Rights to the matrimonial home
> Maintenance,
> Measures relating to children: parental authority, residence, contribution to their education and maintenance,
> Compensatory allowance,
> Division of property,
> Claims for damages and interests

BKP & Partners will inform you about the various existing procedures and the advisability of initiating proceedings.
They can act quickly and effectively before the courts in all urgent cases: domestic violence, threat of removal of a child or relocation of a spouse.

LIQUIDATION OF THE MATRIMONIAL REGIME AND DIVISION OF PROPERTY / ESTATES

BKP & Partners can assist you and represent you in the context of sharing the matrimonial regime or property held in undivided co-ownership, either with a notary or in judicial proceedings.

They will also be at your side during evaluation meetings: with accounting experts or property experts depending on the regime or the estate,

With regard to the estate, they can initiate the procedures for issuing legacies or for cancelling a will.

PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW

BKP & Partners implement the rules of private international law in all proceedings which require it (divorce, measures relating to children, estates, liquidation of the matrimonial regime):

> Community regulations,
> Bilateral agreements (with Morocco, Poland)
> International conventions.

CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS

Finally, BKP & Partners can support you in all criminal proceedings in connection with a family dispute :

> Summons to appear before the Criminal Court (non presentation of a child, family abandonment),
> Investigation procedures