Family

Family

International marriages, international families and international adoption are the issues most often arising from such conveniences of these days. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any matter concerning family law. Do you need to resolve childcare issues or the amount of maintenance and support, or to determine or deny paternity? Do you need legal aid in the field of adoption? Do you have problems with the recognition of a marriage or registered partnership solemnised abroad – or do you want to get divorced, dissolve a registered partnership? Or perhaps you feel you are entitled to a different adjustment or settling of community property of spouses? We will be glad to help you with these and other related issues through our cooperating law office which will immediately initiate appropriate legal steps and act so that the situation can be resolved as soon as possible. Please do not hesitate to write or call us; describe the situation to us, and we will be glad to help you.

Key contacts

Kateřina Dlouhá graduated in 2009 from the Law Faculty at Charles University. Since January 2013 she has been a fully qualified attorney registered with the Czech Bar Association.
Kateřina is an expert in family law, including international child abductions, and is well acquainted with the European regulation and Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction from October 25, 1980.
In her practice she helps clients with recognition of foreign marriage certificates or registered partnerships as well as with divorce or termination of registered partnerships. She also assists with community property settlements and adjustments, matters of childcare, and determination and enforcement of maintenance and support. In addition to this, Kateřina represents clients in cases of determination or denial of paternity.
Kateřina will be glad to assist you in matters that can represent important transitions in your life. With her extensive experience in family law she will work with you to immediately initiate appropriate legal steps so that the situation can be resolved as soon as possible.

 

We will ensure for you

  • Comprehensive advisory services in the field of family law
  • Prenuptial agreements, agreements regulating the matrimonial property regime
  • Community property settlement agreement
  • Divorce agreement
  • Solution of the duty of maintenance and support between spouses or divorced spouses,
  • Preparation of agreements regarding childcare, including maintenance and support and contacts
  • Representation at court
  • Representation during negotiations with state administration authorities
  • Services of professional translators as a matter of course

 

Weddings, registered partnership and prenuptial agreements


We will be glad to assist you in more pleasant situations. If you wish to get married or enter into a registered partnership and you do not know what documents must be submitted for this purpose; how to arrange for recognition in the Czech Republic of a marriage or registered partnership solemnised abroad; have questions regarding other legal aspects of marriage or registered partnership, do not hesitate and contact us.
We are ready to prepare draft prenuptial agreements or any agreements regulating the matrimonial property regime after the wedding.
We are ready to help you with the duty to maintain and support between spouses.


Divorce of marrige, dissolution of registered partnership

 

We deal with divorces, whether agreed divorces or contentious divorces, i.e. divorces where spouses are not able to agree. In the latter case, a matter of course is settlement of community property, whether by way of an agreement or through an action filed at court. We also have considerable experience in the field of maintenance obligations between spouses or divorced spouses.
We will be glad to assist you also with dissolution of registered partnership.
Concerning either divorce or dissolution of registered partnership, we will be glad to help you in this difficult moment so that the situation can be resolved as soon as possible.

 

 

Childcare matters, Alimony and child support claims, International child kidnappings

 

We deal with childcare, maintenance, support, and contacts with the child. We have a great deal of experience with this. The best for all is parental agreement, but not in all situations is this possible – so we are ready to represent you at the court and immediately initiate appropriate legal steps so that the situation can be resolved as soon as possible and in the best interest of the child who has the right to both the parents. We know how to proceed: it is necessary to act as fast as possible and to use all possibilities which the legal order provides to us. Therefore, do not hesitate and contact us, rather than waiting until the situation is fully escalated.
We know what it is like to lose a child. We have experience with international child abductions from Czech Republic or to the Czech Republic. We are also well acquainted with the European regulation and Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction of 25 October 1980.

JUDr. Kateřina Dlouhá

Our Family law services are provided in cooperation with law firm of JUDr. Kateřina Dlouhá. She is an expert in the field of Family law. Since 2013 when she became an fully qualified attorney at law registered with Czech Bar Association, she has been working on dozens of cases concerning family law, recognition of foreign marriage certificates or registered partnerships as well as with divorce or termination of registered partnerships.