Family and inheritance law
Family and inheritance matters often affect a client’s most important personal and property interests. Mesrin Ferhad provides legal advice, representation and protection in family and inheritance disputes, considering each case individually and seeking legally sound, practical solutions.
Divorce
- Divorce by mutual consent
- Contested divorce
- Drafting divorce agreements
- Parental responsibility after divorce
- Determining a child’s residence
- Child contact arrangements
- Child and spousal maintenance
- Changes to maintenance or contact arrangements
- Property relations between spouses
- Division of property after divorce
Parental responsibility and child protection
- Disputes over parental responsibility
- Setting and changing contact arrangements
- Disputes over a child’s residence
- Maintenance for minor children
- Establishing or contesting parentage
- Adoption
- Guardianship and trusteeship
- Protection in domestic violence cases
- International child and parental responsibility disputes
Family property
- Matrimonial community property
- Separation and division of family assets
- Real estate ownership disputes
- Marriage contracts
- Property relations between spouses
- Protection of property rights on divorce or separation
Inheritance law
- Inheritance under statutory rules
- Inheritance under a will
- Drafting and reviewing wills
- Contesting wills
- Acceptance or renunciation of inheritance
- Acceptance subject to inventory
- Reserved inheritance share and its restoration
- Inheritance disputes
- Court ordered and voluntary division of estates
- Establishing heirs and inheritance rights
- Disputes over inherited real estate
International family and inheritance matters
Assistance is also available when spouses, children, heirs or property are in different countries, including Bulgaria, EU member states and the United Kingdom. Such cases require assessment of applicable law, international jurisdiction and recognition and enforcement of judgments.
Legal protection attentive to the individual, the family and their rights.
