Services

• Neighbours’ rights and obligations
• Excessive (noise) emissions
• Trees and shrubs under the law of neighbour relations
• Rights and obligations arising from condominium ownership
• Contesting decisions of the condominium owners

Contact: Lawyer Dr. Marianne Schaub-Hristić

• Design and conclusion of contracts for work and architecture contracts
• Registration, deletion of building contractor liens
• Assertion of claims arising from contracts for work
• Work defects / claims for defects
• Reworking
• Excessive (noise) emissions

Contact: Lawyer Dr. Marianne Schaub-Hristić

• Assessment and appeal of fines imposed by municipal magistrates or governor’s offices

Contact: Lawyer Mirjam Stanek Brändle

• Assertion of receivables by way of debt enforcement and bankruptcy
• Discharge proceedings
• Securing assets through distraint
• Enforcement of foreign judgements and other claims

Contact: Lawyer Dr. Marianne Schaub-Hristić

• Marriage protection (“Eheschutz”) / Separation
• Divorce / Dissolution of registered partnership
• Drafting separation and divorce agreements
• Amendment of judgments on divorce

Contact: Lawyer Dinah Hetata and Lawyer Mirjam Stanek Brändle

• Contract design, review and negotiation
• Advice on the implementation, interpretation and analysis of contracts
• Drafting and updating needs-based contract models
• Sample contracts and general terms and conditions (GTC)
• Assertion of contractual rights and claims

Contact: Lawyer Dr. Marianne Schaub-Hristić 

• Drafting and concluding employment contracts
• Terminations, warnings and declarations of exemption
• Employment references and their adjustments
• Wage claims, gratuities and bonuses
• Short-time work compensation
• Obtaining work permits

Contact: Lawyer Dr. Marianne Schaub-Hristić and Lawyer Mirjam Stanek Brändle

• Prenuptial agreement, wills, inheritance agreement
• Power of attorney, living wills
• Distribution of estate, administration of estates
• Execution of wills, representation of heirs
• Sale of real estate, estate liquidations (including art and collectibles)
• Inheritance, abatement and invalidity lawsuits and defending against them
• Advice on tax matters

Contact: Lawyer Karin Hochl and Lawyer Mirjam Stanek Brändle

• Representation and support in criminal proceedings
• Enforcement of claims (damages, satisfaction)

Contact: Lawyer Dinah Hetata

• Pension fund and 3a pillar scheme
• Retirement and survivor’s insurance and supplementary benefits
• Living will and power of attorney

Contact: Lawyer Karin Hochl

• Marriage and property law advice (e.g. marriage contract)
• Legal protection of unmarried couples with children
• Legal security for unmarried couples when buying real estate
• Sale and transfer of real estate
• Advice on taxes and pensions

Contact: Lawyer Karin Hochl

• Property and its use
• Drafting of purchase contracts
• Liens and registration of easements
• Usufruct and right of abode
• Capital gains tax on property
• Property sales

Contact: Lawyer Dr. Marianne Schaub-Hristić and Lawyer Karin Hochl

• Advice on sperm donation
• Advice on egg donation abroad
• Advice on surrogacy abroad (e.g. USA and other countries)
• Recognition of child-parent relationship established abroad through surrogacy in Switzerland
• Recognition of foreign judgments (e.g. adoption) in Switzerland
  Representation in proceedings before civil registry offices (registration of the child)

Contact: Lawyer Karin Hochl

• Partnership law, cohabitation
• Family planning for same-sex couples, including international circumstances
• Cooperation with organisation Swiss Rainbow Families
• Advice and representation in the adoption process
• Name change
• Property settlement agreement, wills, inheritance agreement
• Tax and pension advice

Contact: Lawyer Karin Hochl

• General advice and assessment of IV cases
• Advice and representation in disputes concerning disability insurance (IV) and contestation of the corresponding preliminary decisions and rulings up to the Federal Supreme Court
• Advice and representation in all matters relating to occupational benefits, old-age pensions, supplementary and/or additional benefits, as well as enforcement of the relevant decisions
• Advice and representation in disputes arising in connection to the casualty insurance, health insurance or general insurance as well as enforcement of the corresponding decisions

Contact:  Lawyer Mirjam Stanek Brändle

• Advice for landlords and administrations
• Design and conclusion of rental contracts
• Rent adjustments, increases and decreases
• Rent increases after (total) renovations
• Assertion of rights and obligations arising from rental contracts
• Procedure for dealing with defects in rented leased property
• Procedure for dealing with tenant rent arrears
• Termination of rental contracts
• Extension of tenancies
• Eviction procedures
• Rent collection
• Heating and ancillary cost settlements
• Claims for damages on moving out
• Representation before arbitration authorities and courts

Contact: Lawyer Dr. Marianne Schaub-Hristić and Lawyer Mirjam Stanek Brändle