Marie-Luise Merschky, Partner

lawyer
lawyer specializing in family law

Location: Halle (Saale)

Specialization: family law

Marie-Luise Merschky was born in 1967 in Bonn. She studied at the Rhine’s Friedrich-Wilhelm University and passed her first juristic state examination there in 1994. She spent her time as a trainee in Halle up to her second state juristic examination in 1996.
She has worked as a correction helper and head of a work group at the Martin-Luther University in Halle.

Already as a trainee she worked in the partnership. Since 1996 she has been working as a lawyer in the chancellery in Halle and at times as a sleeping partner. In 1999 she bore a daughter and was appointed a lawyer specializing in family law. Lawyer Merschky advises in Halle on family law. She concentrates on advising and supporting clients wishing to seal contracts of marriage or of partnerships outside marriage and deals with agreements to separate or divorce. She also advises and represents clients on the process of divorce and its consequences as well as on the law regarding marriage property, financial support, and the law of association and care.

Besides working as a lawyer, she is responsible for choosing, appointing and training trainees.

Mrs Merschky gives lectures, and as an expert on family law she has already been a guest on the program ‘A Case for Escher’ on German Midlands Radio. She also contributes regularly to magazines for lawyers or the general public. Her topics include the following:

• The old marriage contract may be out of date, MZ, 28.11.2005
• Superannuation after three years, MZ, 04.07.2005
• Divorce smoothed out, MZ, 22.03.2004
• Is a son-in-law obliged to offer support?, MZ, 19.01.2004
• Supporting unmarried mothers, MZ, 07.07.2003
• Claims for support may superannuate, MZ, 28.07.2003
• When is a father the father?, MZ, 31.03.2003
• Separated housewives, MZ, 21.10.2002
• Partnership contract - many details spare vexation, MZ, 09.09.2002
• Income information legitimate: the topic of support, MZ, 26.08.2002
• Ending up divorced, MZ, 13.08.2001
• Support after divorce - about the decision of the German law court on housewives who get jobs after being divorced, MZ, 02.07.2001
• Application for enforcement if necessary - about the extreme case of refusal of payments for support, MZ, 12.02.2001
• When men become fathers - determination, recognition and denial of fatherhood, MZ, 16.10.2000
• Obligation to declare one’s economic state - about the right to information for the sake of support, MZ, 21.08.2000
• Financing a first education - about parents’ obligation to support grown-up children, MZ, 14.08.2000
• Couples should write down their property - the marriage contract, MZ, 17.07.2000
• When children demand rights, MZ, 22.05.2000
• Agreements pre-empt quarrels - How strife in the case of divorce can be avoided in advance through agreements about marriage and divorce, MZ, 24.01.2000
• Not separated from granny - about reforms concerning support, care and association law, MZ, 29.06.1998
• What is right for children - about the role of children in divorce procedures, MZ, 04.05.1998
• Ambiguous interpretations - clear guidelines in strife about the division of property in the case of separation, MZ, 16.02.1998