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
• 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

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

• 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

• 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

• 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