Family law in theEuropaviertel

The Europaviertel grew up on the site of the former central goods station: a new quarter with many young families, freshly acquired homes and a high number of international couples.

That shapes the instructions that come from here as well. It is disproportionately often about the shared flat on a separation: who stays, who keeps paying the loan, at what value it enters the assets calculation. It is about the equalization of accrued gains for couples who have only built up in recent years what now has to be divided. And for binational couples the question of the competent court and the applicable law comes before everything else.

For family matters from the Europaviertel, the Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main (local court) has jurisdiction as the family court. Which court decides locally in the individual case follows § 122 FamFG, usually according to where shared minor children live or where you last lived together. We clarify the forum bindingly before the application is filed; it has no influence on your choice of firm, because local admission no longer exists.

Beyond that we need little: the birth certificates of shared minor children, details of both spouses' income and the pension insurance numbers for the pension rights adjustment. Which documents are specifically needed in your case we tell you in advance, so that nothing is missing.

The first conversation costs 190 euros plus VAT. The amount is fixed before you come and does not grow with the length of the conversation or the difficulty of your case (§ 34 (1) RVG); where an instruction follows, we set it off against the overall bill. What you entrust to us is subject to a lawyer's duty of confidentiality from the first minute.

The costs of the proceedings themselves then follow the value in dispute, which the court measures among other things by the income of both spouses (§ 43 FamGKG), not by how contested the divorce is. The basics with a calculator are set out under what does a divorce cost?; we are happy to calculate a specific estimate for you in advance.

The contact for new enquiries is Mieke Karcher, attorney at law. She has been admitted since 2010, is a member of the Rechtsanwaltskammer Frankfurt am Main and conducts the family court proceedings, from the amicable as well as the contested divorce through maintenance to custody and contact rights. She completed her legal traineeship among other places at the regional court and the local court in Frankfurt, that is at the same courts before which she appears today.

As soon as it is about the flat, about property values or about business assets, Dietrich Karcher, attorney at law, takes responsibility for that part. He brings more than 30 years of civil law and alongside that has worked for years in real estate, self-employed and as head of the property department at a state bank: with an owner-occupied flat and a running loan, that is the difference between a solution that is legally possible and one that is actually bearable. Advice is given in German, English and Spanish, for the many international couples in the quarter often the decisive point.

You call or write briefly about what it is about; we reply to written enquiries usually within one working day, and an appointment can as a rule be arranged within a few days. In the conversation we clarify your situation, the conditions, among them the year of separation under § 1566 (1) BGB, and the further steps. After that you obtain the documents, we formulate the application and file it with the competent family court; from there to the order, an amicable divorce as a rule takes four to six months, in which above all the pension providers' replies for the pension rights adjustment need time. Both spouses appear in person at the divorce hearing; everything before it can be handled digitally if you wish.

From the first conversation to the order we represent you in all questions of family law, by agreement as well as contested. Where you start depends on what is pending in your case: amicable divorce describes the calm route, separation & maintenance clarifies the question that usually arises first, and custody & contact rights also deals with shared care.

Where it is about the flat, matrimonial home, property & household goods and assets & accrued gains separate the question of use from the question of value. For binational couples in the quarter, international family law clarifies jurisdiction and applicable law. And if you prefer to handle much of it digitally, online divorce shows what actually runs online.