Our practice areas
The Geneva Legal Advice Service provides advice notably in the following areas.
Our main practice areas
Divorce and separation
- Separation (protective measures of the marital union)
- Divorce by mutual consent (joint petition)
- Unilateral divorce
- Custody (sole and joint)
- Visitation rights
- Child maintenance payments
- Spousal maintenance
- Liquidation of the matrimonial property regime
- Pension splitting (occupational pension)
- Family home
- Urgent proceedings (interim measures)
- Restraining orders
- Action to vary a judgment
- Instructions to debtors
- Recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments
Family law
- Parental authority (unmarried parents)
- Filiation and acknowledgement of paternity
- Child maintenance outside marriage
- Maintenance agreement
- Adult protection (curatorship, TPAE)
- Marriage and matrimonial property regimes
- Registered partnership
- Domestic violence
- International child abduction
- Adoption
- Change of name
- Child protection
- Action contesting paternity
- Annulment of marriage
- Failure to hand over a child
Inheritance law
- Holographic and public wills
- Inheritance agreement
- Statutory entitlement and disposable portion
- Certificate of inheritance
- Disclaimer of inheritance
- Public inventory
- Action in abatement
- Division of the estate
- Executor of the will
- Disputes between heirs
- International successions
- Inheritance tax
Employment law
- Employment contract
- Work permit
- Employment reference
- Overtime
- Gender Equality Act
- Protection of the employee’s personality rights
- Mobbing
- Psychological harassment
- Sick leave
- Protected period
- Wrongful dismissal
- Termination of employment
- Unemployment benefits
Immigration law
- EU residence permits (L, B, G permits)
- FNA residence permits (F, N, S permits, etc.)
- Settlement permit (C and Ci permits)
- Family reunification
- Visas
- Facilitated naturalisation
- Ordinary naturalisation
- Expulsion
Road traffic law
- Road Traffic Act (LCR) offences
- Driving licence
- Traffic offences
- Speeding and its consequences
- Licence withdrawal
- Drink-driving
- Driving under the influence of drugs
- Road accidents
Criminal law
- Criminal Code offences
- Criminal proceedings
- Police questioning
- Penal order
- Police custody (pre-trial detention)
- Substitute measures
- Criminal complaint
- Denunciation
- Offences against sexual integrity
Tax law
- Tax and family planning
- Lump-sum taxation
- Reconsideration
- Appeals
- Tax assessment
- Default assessment
Find us
3, rue Michel-Chauvet, 1208 Genève
Suisse
TPG — MUSEUM stops: bus 1, 5, 8 and 25
TRANCHÉES stops: bus 1 and 8
TRAM 12 — Villereuse stop
Parking des Eaux-Vives 2000
Contact us
Opening hours
Monday to Friday, 7:30 am to 9:00 pm by appointment