Procedures
Legal procedures, step by step
Steps, timelines, authorities, costs. Each procedure is laid out the way we actually run it in Geneva — no approximation, no promises.
- Disability insurance claim (AI) — step by step
Filing an AI pension claim at the Geneva OAI and defending the file: conditions of LAI art. 4 ss, qualifying period, TAPI appeal then Federal Tribunal.
Social insurance
- Binational divorce in Geneva — procedure and jurisdiction
Divorce procedure before the Geneva Court of First Instance for binational or frontalier couples. Jurisdiction under PILA art. 59-60, applicable law, prospective exequatur in France.
Private international law · Family
- International child abduction — Hague 1980 procedure (24 h emergency)
Acting within 24 hours on a wrongful child removal between Switzerland and another country. Return procedure under the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980, art. 1 ss.
Private international law · Family · Within 24 h
- Recognition of a French judgment in Switzerland (exequatur)
Step-by-step procedure to have a French judgment (divorce, custody, maintenance) recognised and made enforceable in Switzerland — Lugano Convention art. 31 ss CL and PILA art. 25-31.
Private international law · Family
- Marital protection measures (MPUC) — Geneva (immediate separation)
Rapidly obtaining separation, attribution of housing, custody of children and provisional maintenance in case of marital crisis — CC arts. 172-179.
Family · Urgent
- Recovering a cross-border maintenance order (CH-FR)
Enforcing a maintenance order across the Swiss-French border — Lugano Convention, New York Convention 1956 and LP art. 38 ss.
Private international law · Family · Urgent
- Family reunification — permit B holder (LEI)
Bringing spouse and children to Switzerland through family reunification — LEI arts. 43-45 for permit B holders, housing and means conditions, OCPM timelines.
Immigration law
- International succession opened in Geneva — key steps
Opening and liquidating an estate in Geneva when the deceased or the heirs have cross-border ties — PILA art. 86 ss, EU Regulation 650/2012, certificate of heirship.
Successions