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Understand how to discuss and carefully record your child's financial care.
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Child support: agreements on costs
Understand how to discuss and carefully record your child's financial care.
Practical guideSpousal support after a divorce
Read which questions are important when making a contribution for a former spouse or registered partner.
Practical guideLawyer costs and subsidised legal aid
Clarify costs in advance and have possible financial assistance assessed.
Practical guideCalculating child maintenance: understand the steps behind the amount
From needs and net disposable income to care arrangements: prepare a maintenance calculation you can understand.
Practical guideChanging maintenance: from changed circumstances to a substantiated request
Prepare for changes in income, care or family circumstances while handling the existing obligation carefully.
Practical guideMaintenance not paid: build a clear record of missed payments
Check arrears, communicate safely and prepare to seek help from the LBIO or another appropriate adviser.
Practical guideMaintenance indexation in 2026: check the amount, base year and payments
Understand annual increases, avoid calculation errors and distinguish indexation from recalculation.
Practical guideMaintenance from age eighteen: involve the young adult
Prepare clear arrangements for living expenses, studies and the young adult’s independent position.
Practical guideHow long does spousal maintenance last? Check the applicable rules first
Duration depends on the applicable regime, relationship details, exceptions and existing agreements.
Practical guideA business during divorce: establish entitlements before valuation
Prepare the questions about business assets, matrimonial agreements, valuation and implementation.
Practical guideDivorcing as a business owner: explain income and maintain continuity
Organise business figures, personal expenses and day-to-day responsibilities during divorce.
Practical guideGifts or inheritance on divorce: trace the money and its legal basis
Why the marital property regime, exclusion clauses, documents and subsequent use all matter when assessing inherited or gifted assets.
Practical guideChild budget after separation: check the applicant, household and calculation
Understand the separate roles of SVB and Dienst Toeslagen, and avoid mistaken financial assumptions about shared parenting.
Practical guideDivorcing with debts: distinguish sharing the burden from creditors’ rights
Organise contracts, the origins of debts and payment risks before agreeing how to allocate them.
Practical guideA new partner and maintenance: identify which question really changes
Distinguish a new relationship, cohabitation, stepparent status and the existing maintenance arrangements.
Practical guideThe family home after separation: stay, leave or sell?
Distinguish temporary occupation, ownership, financing and the tax consequences of the home.
Practical guideBuying out a partner: questions before the calculation
Investigate entitlements, value, financing and tax before finally agreeing on a buyout amount.
Practical guidePensions after divorce: rights, choices and implementation
Map retirement pensions, survivor pensions and other provisions separately before making agreements.
Practical guideDividing assets and debts after separation
First establish which property falls under which rules, then prepare a substantiated proposal for division.