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Articles on separation, divorce, maintenance, custody, contact arrangements and matrimonial property matters.
Child maintenance: how is it calculated?
After a separation, the question of how much maintenance has to be paid for the children comes up quickly. The calculation follows fixed rules but depends on several variables. Even small mistakes in …
→Contact rights: what applies if parents cannot agree?
After a separation, a child has a right to contact with both parents, and each parent is both entitled and obliged to maintain contact. If the parents cannot agree on arrangements, there is an orderly path to …
→Divorce in Germany: how the proceedings work
In Germany, a divorce always requires court proceedings. How long they take and what needs to be settled depends above all on whether the spouses agree. Prerequisite: the year of separation The family court …
→The year of separation: what does living separately mean?
In Germany, a marriage can generally be dissolved only after the spouses have lived separately for at least one year. What “living separately” means in legal terms is less obvious than many people assume. Why …
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