We are Mieke and Dietrich Karcher, lawyers focused on family law. From Frankfurt, we work for clients across Germany. We meet you at our office in Frankfurt or on Zoom, from anywhere in Germany or abroad.
Your starting point
Pick the sentence that fits you best.
Who advises you
Mieke Karcher has worked as a lawyer since 2010 and supports clients with online divorces and in international family law. Dietrich Karcher has been a lawyer for more than thirty years and ran his own practice in Granada.
Lawyer, admitted since 2010
She handles uncontested and contested divorces as well as maintenance proceedings, and alongside the divorce she also settles parental responsibility and contact, always with an eye on what it means for your family’s everyday life.
Lawyer, founder and owner of the practice
His focus today is property and assets, from the Zugewinnausgleich (accrued gains) to the marital home.
The next step
The first consultation with Mieke or Dietrich Karcher lasts about 60 minutes. It takes place at our office in Frankfurt or on Zoom.
Afterwards, you decide in your own time whether to entrust us with your case.
The consultation costs up to €190 plus VAT, so at most €226.10. If we take on your case, this fee is credited toward our further fees.
Tell us briefly what it is about and choose one or two times in the calendar. We usually get back to you on the next working day and confirm the appointment.
The process
From the Trennungsjahr (year of separation) to the decree in five steps. How long it takes depends mainly on how quickly the pension providers respond.
You live apart for a year, which is possible in the same home too. Maintenance, accounts and who stays in the home for now can be settled already.
We discuss what you want to achieve in the end and what worries you most. That shapes the strategy, at our office or by video.
We file the petition for you, as you cannot file it yourself. If you agree, one lawyer is enough for the entire proceedings.
The court obtains information from the pension providers, and that takes longest. During this time we settle maintenance, assets and the home.
You both attend the short hearing and confirm that you want the divorce. Once the decree is final, you are divorced.
What it costs
Court and lawyer fees follow statutory tables. We do not charge by the hour. How high the costs turn out depends on four things:
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Quick questions
Send us a request online. We usually get back to you on the next working day and agree on a time with you.
No. The first consultation also works by Zoom, and you submit your documents online. We work for clients all over Germany.
If you have them, your marriage certificate, your latest pay stubs and your pension statement, plus any marital agreement. If something is missing, come anyway.
No, we may only ever represent one side, even if you agree. In an einvernehmliche Scheidung (uncontested divorce), however, the other side does not need a lawyer of their own.
