Family law touches on the most personal aspects of life. Relationship breakdown, questions concerning children, organisation of family assets: these situations call for a lawyer who can combine legal rigour with genuine human understanding.
Divorce and separation
Maître Toorawa assists you through all divorce proceedings: divorce by mutual consent (since Act No. 2016-1547 of 18 November 2016), divorce on grounds of fault, irretrievable breakdown of marriage, or acceptance of the principle of the breakdown of the marriage.
The aim is to defend your interests whilst preserving, as far as possible, a constructive dialogue — particularly where children are involved.
Separation also concerns unmarried couples. The firm handles the breakdown of cohabitation or the dissolution of a civil partnership (PACS) and their consequences: the fate of the family home, the division of jointly owned assets, and the residence and maintenance of the children.
Children and parental authority
Decisions concerning children — residence arrangements, custody arrangements, contact and visiting rights, maintenance contributions — are those with the greatest long-term impact. Maître Toorawa represents you in obtaining or varying arrangements that serve your children’s best interests and respect your parental rights.
Grandparents, third parties and family solidarity
The family is not limited to the couple and their children. The firm acts to secure the contact rights of grandparents and other family members with an emotional bond to the child, always in the child’s best interests. It also assists you in enforcing or contesting maintenance obligations between ascendants and descendants.
Matrimonial property
Divorce entails the dissolution of the matrimonial property regime, which can be complex: jointly owned or co-owned property, a business, savings. The firm advises and represents you in an amicable or judicial partition, protecting your financial interests throughout.
The firm helps you understand the financial consequences of divorce — contribution to the expenses of the marriage, compensatory allowance — and to assert your rights over community assets, or co-owned assets for spouses under the regime of separation of property.