Marie Berger

Practice Areas

Family and persons' law (national and international divorce, separation matrimonial estate, judiciary measures of protection of the marital union, registered partnerships)

Nuptial and prenuptial agreements

Family finances

International child abduction and counsel in this area to Swiss and foreign lawyers

Splitting of occupational pension scheme (second pillar)

International private law

Medicaly assisted procuration including surrogacy and effects in Switzerland

Recognition and enforcement of foreign orders and judgments

Family Criminal law

Career

April 2021: representative of the Geneva Bar Association during a mission to observe the trials of Turkish colleagues and meetings in prison with some of them, in collaboration with European Bars and the International Observatory of Lawyers

Partner of the Firm BRS Berger Recordon & de Saugy (since 2020)

May 2019 : representative of the Geneva Bar Association and the International Commission of Jurists in the framework of a mission to observe the humanitarian situation of the indigenous community of Laguna Larga from El Petén displaced on a border zone between Mexico and Guatemala

Associate lawyer with the Firm BRS Avocats (2009 - 2020)

Trainee with the Firm LHA (2007-2008)

Trainee with the Geneva Superior Court of Justice (September 2006 - February 2007)

Professional Memberships

Geneva Bar Association

Swiss Lawyers' Federation

International Academy of Family Lawyers

Human rights Commission of the Geneva Bar

Geneva Bar Exam Commission

Juris Conseil Junior

Publications

Swiss contribution in : "Practical Family Law Guide", Thomson Reuters (April 2023)

Maintenance of minor children : a path towards standardization, Revue de l'avocat 11/12/2021 (December 2021)

Swiss contribution in: Practical Law Family Global Guide, Thomson Reuters 2021 (December 2020)