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Relationships

Overview

  • Marriage, Civil Unions and Cohabitation

Marriage and Civil Unions

  • Surnames After Marriage & Civil Unions
  • Marriage Procedure
  • Religious and Civil Ceremonies
  • Bigamy
  • Duties and Responsibilities of Spouses
  • Same Sex Marriages
  • Engagements

 

Marriage Contracts

  • Marital Property Systems (Matrimonial Regimes)
  • Transfer of Property or Money
  • Agreements on Family Life
  • Drawing up a Marriage Contract

 

Marital Property Systems

  • Community of Acquests
  • Separation of Estates
  • Community of Residue (CORSA)
  • Overview of Property Systems

Separation, Annulment and Divorce

  • Separation
  • Civil Annulment
  • Church Annulment
  • Divorce

Family Issues

  • Matrimonial Home
  • Parental Responsibility (Care and Custody)
  • Child Support (Maintenance)
  • Spousal Support (Maintenance)
  • Good Grounds for Separation
  • Failing to provide access and maintenance to children
  • Consequences for the party who gives rise to Separation

Divorce Process

  • Mediation Process
  • Decisions Pending the Separation Process (Pendente Lite)
  • Breach of Child Access and Maintenance
  • Protection, Restraining and Treatment Orders

Domestic Violence

  • What Constitutes Domestic Violence?
  • Repercussions for the Perpetrator

Child Adoption

Overview

  • Legal Effects of Adoptions
  • Open Adoption
  • Right to Information

Adopting the child of a spouse

  • Parent-Spouse Adoptions

Local & International Adoptions

  • Who can adopt?
  • Adoption Process
  • 1993 Hague Convention
  • Accredited Agencies
  • Central Authorities
  • Child Adoptions Board

 

    Parental Responsibility

    • Introduction
    • Unknown Parents
    • DNA

    Paternity

    • Acknowledgement of a Child Born out of Wedlock
    • Repudiation
    • Presumptions when a child is born in wedlock
    • Impeaching Filiation
    • Paternity Procedure

    Care Orders

    • Introducing Care Orders
    • Contesting a Care Order

    Death, Wills and Inheritance

    • Inheritance in Maltese Law
    • Death and What Happens After
    • Drawing Up a Will
    • Accepting or Renouncing an Inheritance
    • Benefit of Inventory
    • Who inherits if there is no will? (intestate succession)
    • The Reserved Portion
    • Equality between siblings

    International Child Custody, Abduction and Access 

    • Civil & Criminal Aspects of Child Abduction in Malta

    • International Child Custody Disputes
    • Wrongful Removal (Child Abduction)
    • Child Abduction Law
    • Afraid that Your Child will be Abducted?
    • Missing Children & Emergency Situations
    • Parents Accused of Child Abduction
    • Lawful Resettlement of a Child
    • International Child Access
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    Useful links

    • Laws of Malta
    • Maltese Court Judgments
    • Aġenzija Appoġġ - Child Protection Agency
    • Malta Suicide Hotline
    • Domestic Violence Support Unit
    • Legal Aid Malta
    • Cana Movement Advisory Services

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