Personal and family law

Divorce

VERCRAEYE Solicitors apply themselves professionally and personally to relationships between partners ending, –usually this concerns divorce, but other forms of cohabition ending also require assistance-, and strive to provide the quickest and most efficient solutions for all the problems that come with it.

There are two ways of reaching a divorce, by mutual consent or because of irreconcilable differences. If possible, we shall always strive first and foremost to come to an amicable solution certainly now that chances are that parties will still need to be able to communicate with each other in the future, definitely when there are children involved. If an amicable solution does not seem to be possible, the appropriate legal measures are immediately taken in order to obtain a legal solution which can put an end to the current difficulties.

Divorce not only concerns partners splitting up, it also concerns claims in terms of parental authority, the children’s residence and maintenance payment arrangements, personal maintenance payments, liquidation and distribution of common property, etc.

All solicitors at VERCRAEYE’s Solicitors have sufficient knowledge and experience to assist you with help and advice in matters of personal and family law. We also always pay the necessary attention to the emotional side of these issues without ever losing sight of the legal reality.

Parental authority – childrens’ visitation rights

The Family Courts are authorised to deal with all disputes in terms of parental authority and the children’s visitation rights.

If you as parents do not reach an agreement about parental authority and the children’s visitation rights, and everything it entails, we can assist you using our high levels of experience and knowledge.

When one of the parents does not comply with their parental obligations, we can assist you in the steps to be taken in order to obtain the appropriate maintenance payments for the children.

Every since 1/9/2014 the huge majority of family cases have been dealt with by the authorised Family Courts, with the specific purpose that all family disputes are dealt with by one and the same Judge. Every dispute concerning children shall be dealt with by the Family Courts and therefore by the same Judge, even if in the future circumstances change. This will make it possible to put a stop to fragmentation of possible family claims.

Family fortune law

Family fortune law encompasses among others matrimonial fortune law, inheritance law, donations and relationships between legal and factual co-habitants. All our solicitors at VERCRAEYE’s have sufficient knowledge and experience to assist you in these matters.

After a divorce, common property needs to be liquidated and distributed whereby it is important to know whether parties have signed a pre-nup or any other community agreement.

When spouses have not signed a prenuptial contract, they are automatically married under the legal system. Spouses can choose to sign a prenuptial contract so that they can choose for a different system such as the separation of goods or general community.

Legal and factual co-habitants also have options in terms of organising their financial situation and when they separate, their common property also needs to be divided.

Inheritance law also belongs to the category of family property law. It mainly deals with how to settle the inheritance, what it consists of and how it needs to be divided between the inheritors, with or without a will.

We can advise you in terms of fortune planning and succession rights.

Law of parentage

The law of parentage deals among others with issues of parental recognition, determination of parentage, contesting paternity, and all kinds of issues regarding adoption. This is a branch of family law which recently has seen a lot of change so that assistance is of the utmost importance. It is that assiatnce we can give you.

Juvenile law

Juvenile law deals with minors. You may come in contact with it when a child commits a crime, when a child finds itself in discomforting home situations; in short, when the child’s interests require the intervention of a Judge. Assistance is required in both these cases and VERCRAEYE Solicitors are expert in juvenile law.

We assist and guide minors in discomforting home situations and we also assist their parents.