Family matters
We offer a legal representation in all kinds of proceedings concerning the family life of LGBT persons, including divorce, establishing custody over children, contacts with children, divisions of property or awarding alimony and support.
A decision to end a relationship (both with a person of the same or the opposite sex) sometimes requires a proper legal regulation of relations between former partners / spouses and their children. Such regulations include, among others, divorce proceedings, establishing custody over children, contacts with children, divisions of property or awarding alimony and support. In some cases, these activities should also include securing rights of parents’ new partners, including the right to maintain contacts with their partner’s children.
Our experience:
– divorce proceedings;
– proceedings aimed at establishing a custody over children and contacts with children;
– division of property and establishment of property separation;
– alimony and support proceedings;
– preparation of voluntary parental agreements between biological parents and social parents.
What else we can do for you?
We provide comprehensive tax support to same-sex couples who, despite the lack of general solutions in the form of civil unions or marital equality, want to secure their finances (joint investments, financial protection for children, security clauses in the event of relationship’s dissolution of partner’s death).
We provide legal support in securing the legal status of children born through in vitro fertilization (IVF) and surrogacy, including in LGBT families.
We support victims of discrimination, in particular on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity, e.g. in employment, access to services, healthcare or education, as well as victims of crimes motivated by prejudice, including hate speech.