Family Law Göttingen

The online conference “STARK in der Paar- und Trennungsberatung” will take place on 5.12.2024. With a strong practical focus, it is aimed at professionals from counseling centers for couples and separating families. Among other things, the online platform “STARK”, which has been online since 2022, will be presented as part of the symposium, which was funded by the BMFSFJ in the third-party funded project of the same name and was developed in cooperation between the LMU Munich and the DJI with the Georg August University and other partners.

For the STARK website, the Göttingen sub-project team led by Prof. Dr. Eva Schumann created the topic area “Thinking through a separation legally” (www.stark-familie.info/de/eltern/recht/). The continuation and updating of the website content is currently being funded by the BMFSFJ in the follow-up project “STARKplus”. As part of the symposium, Jennifer Reh, research assistant at Prof. Schumann's chair, will be offering an interactive workshop on the topic of “Residence and alternation model - legal foundations for everyday counseling”.

Further information on the STARK online conference program and the registration form can be found on the conference website: https://www.stark-familie.info/de/fachtag24/

For the winter semester 2023/24, Dipl.-Rpfl. Dagmar Zorn, a proven practitioner, could be won as a lecturer for family law. In her lecture, Ms. Zorn will focus on family procedural law with inheritance law. The lecture follows on from the lectures in family and inheritance law and goes into greater depth on the important procedural principles. Differences to civil proceedings are elaborated and, in addition to the special features of individual family court disputes (divorce proceedings, parentage, custody, contact and maintenance proceedings), the basic features of the inheritance certificate proceedings are also elaborated on the basis of practically relevant cases. It is primarily aimed at students in the main focus (focus 3), but is also ideally suited for exam preparation and for preparing for the family and inheritance law courses as part of the exam course. Dipl.-Rpfl. DAGMAR ZORN, a proven practitioner and commentator (§§ 151-157, 167-168a [Dutta/Jacoby/Schwab]; §§ 342-373 FamFG [Prütting/Helms]; 1835-1849, 1808 BGB, §§ 1-6 VBVG [Staudinger, forthcoming]) with many years of teaching experience (HWR Berlin), has been recruited for the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.

The proceedings of the 19th Göttingen Workshop on Family Law 2023 have been published. The volume contains the presentations from the workshop, which took place on November 10, 2023 on the topic of “Responsibility and Community in Modern Societies”.

The conference proceedings can now be ordered and downloaded at: https://univerlag.uni-goettingen.de/handle/3/isbn-978-3-86395-614-1?locale-attribute=en

Finally, the time has come: the commentary on sections 1564 - 1568 of the German Civil Code (BGB) in Staudinger by Prof. Dr. Philipp M. Reuß and Gerd Weinreich has been published. The commentary deals with divorce and contains an extensive revision, particularly in the area of European law and the development of divorce laws in other legal systems.

The commentary can be accessed online exclusively via juris.de.

A symposium organized by Prof. Dr. Barbara Veit and Prof. Dr. Philipp M. Reuß will take place on 28 June 2024 to mark the 200th anniversary of Gottlieb Planck's birth. Further information will follow shortly.

The new episode of our #familiensachen podcast is online. In episode 18, the focus is once again on the community of responsibility. Along with Prof. Dr. Isabell Götz and Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Volker Lipp we look at the question of what urgently needs to be regulated in the area of non-marital communities. We will also be listening to excerpts from the lectures given at the Göttingen workshop on family law.

Listen in at: https://www.famrz.de/famrz-podcast-folge-18-3-verantwortungsgemeinschaft-2-teil.html

For the winter semester 2023/24, Dipl.-Rpfl. Dagmar Zorn, a proven practitioner, could be won as a lecturer for family law. In her lecture, Ms. Zorn will focus on family procedural law with inheritance law. The lecture follows on from the lectures in family and inheritance law and goes into greater depth on the important procedural principles. Differences to civil proceedings are elaborated and, in addition to the special features of individual family court disputes (divorce proceedings, parentage, custody, contact and maintenance proceedings), the basic features of the inheritance certificate proceedings are also elaborated on the basis of practically relevant cases. It is primarily aimed at students in the main focus (focus 3), but is also ideally suited for exam preparation and for preparing for the family and inheritance law courses as part of the exam course. Dipl.-Rpfl. DAGMAR ZORN, a proven practitioner and commentator (§§ 151-157, 167-168a [Dutta/Jacoby/Schwab]; §§ 342-373 FamFG [Prütting/Helms]; 1835-1849, 1808 BGB, §§ 1-6 VBVG [Staudinger, forthcoming]) with many years of teaching experience (HWR Berlin), has been recruited for the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.

The new episode of our #familiensachen podcast is online. Episode 16 is about the cooperation between the youth welfare office (Jugendamt) and the family court (Familiengericht). Our guest is Prof. Dr. Barbara Seidenstücker, who, as a graduate pedagogue and professor of social work, not only trains future youth welfare office employees, but also conducts research on cooperation in child welfare proceedings.

Listen in at: https://www.famrz.de/famrz-podcast-folge-16-jugendamt-und-familiengericht.html