Attorney, lic. iur. HSG
I advise and accompany opposite- and same-sex couples in all aspects of starting and securing their family. In my areas of work in pension and estate planning, I support you, for example, in drawing up a marriage contract or a will.
Services
Portrait
Publications
Services
Adoption, stepchild adoption
- Advice and representation on adoption, including international circumstances
- Appeal against adoption decisions
- Recognition of foreign adoption judgments in Switzerland
Inheritance law
- 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
Insurance and retirement provision
- Pension fund and 3a pillar scheme
- Retirement and survivor’s insurance and supplementary benefits
- Living will and power of attorney
Marriage, cohabitation, non-traditional families
- 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
Name change
- Advice and representation on name changes of private individuals
- Appeal against name change decisions
- Recognition of foreign decisions concerning the name/changing of name in Switzerland
Property law
- 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
Reproductive medicine, surrogacy
- 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)
Same-sex couples and LGBTs
- 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
Portrait
Languages
German, English, French
Education
- 2005
- Addmitted to the bar, canton of Berne
- 2001
- Licentiate University St. Gallen (HSG)
- 1986 – 1989
- Commercial apprenticeship, Winterthur
Further training
- 2021
- National Conference for Rainbow Families, speaker, Bern
- 2020
- Conference “children for all” of the Center of family science, speaker, Basel
- 2019
- International Surrogacy Forum, University of Cambridge
- 2018
- National and international approach to regulating surrogacy, University of Lausanne
- 2018
- Testifying ability from a geriatric point of view, Inheritance Law Section, Zurich
- 2015
- International Surrogacy Symposium IAML, London
- 2014
- „Future of reproductive medicine“, Conference Universität Zürich
- 2014
- Matrimonial property law (SJWZ event)
- 2013
- Estate planning in practice (SJWZ event)
- 2013
- Combined prenuptial/inheritance agreements (Specialist Unit Inheritance Law)
- 2012
- Supplementary services and inheritance law (Specialist Unit Inheritance Law)
- 2012
- Changes in the law on immovable property (SJWZ conference)
Professional activities
- 2015
- Founded Schaub Hochl Rechtsanwälte AG (Incorporated)
- 2006
- Partner in the law firm Schaub Hochl
- 2005 – 2006
- Lawyer in a Winterthur-based law firm
- 2003 – 2005
- Legal adviser at Protekta Legal Protection Insurance in Berne
- 2002 – 2003
- Legal consultant at the court of the first instance in the canton of Berne
- 2002
- Legal consultant in a Berne-based law firm
- 2001
- Legal consultant at the Superior Court in the canton of Berne
- 1997 – 1999
- Administrative assistant in a St. Gallen-based law firm
- 1993 – 1996
- Touring theatre company in Zurich
- 1986 – 1990
- Commercial apprenticeship in a Winterthur-based law firm
Memberships
- Zurich and Swiss Bar Associations
- Specialist Unit Inheritance Law of the Zurich Bar Association
- Specialist Unit Family Law of the Zurich Bar Association
- Successio Association
- Legal Services Pro Juventute, Inheritance Law
- Umbrella organisation Rainbow Families
- American Bar Association (ABA), Section of Family Law (Alternative Families Committee, Assisted Reproductive Technologies Committee)
Publications