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)

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)

• (December 2021)

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

Experience

o October 20, 2023 : International seminar AIJUDEFA, Paris

«Patrimonial aspects of family law in the international context». Speaker, alongside Sophie Ducamp-Monod, Ramón Tamborero and Diego Pájaro, moderation by Me Luz Calvo.

o September 13, 2023 : Federal Office of Justice, Bern

Federal Act on International Child Abduction and The Hague Conventions on the Protection of Children and Adults (LF - EEA) in practice, exchange of experiences between courts, authorities and experts. Rapporteur, alongside Christoph A. Herzig, of the conclusions of the representatives of minors in Switzerland within the framework of HCCH 1980.

o February 16, 2023: Seminar organized by the University of Geneva, Geneva

Colloquium «Coopérer pour éviter la rupture de lien dans les transitions familiales» - Workshop animated with Marta Fragapane Mirza, psychotherapist FSP, and participation in a round table discussion with prof. Michelle Cottier, Alexandre Balmer, Marta Fragapane Mirza, Camille Maulini, Alexandra Spiess and Marc Venturin, moderated by prof. Eric D. Widmer

o January 26, 2023: General Meeting on Family and Heritage Law, Paris

Workshop News and case-law in PIL animated with Delphine Eskenazi, Alexandre Boiché and Professor Michel Farge

o May 27, 2022 : International congress AIJUDEFA, Sevilla

Symposium Estudio de Derecho Comparado. Caso práctico. Divorcio: Foros de competencia, acuerdos prenupciales y su ejecutividad, distintos regímenes económicos matrimoniales y reconocimiento internacional animated with Carolina Bustamante, María Fábrega and Javier Pérez Martín

o March 8, 2022: General Meeting on Family and Heritage Law, Paris

Workshop News and case-law in PIL animated with Delphine Eskenazi, Alexandre Boiché and Professor Michel Farge

o June 25, 2021: French Institute of Family and Heritage Law, Paris

Colloquium "L’aliénation parentale : mythe et réalité" - Speaker alongside Dr Paul Bensussan, Frédérique Bozzi, Audrey Decroix, Dr. Anne-Catherine Pernot Masson and Dr Jean-Luc Viaux

o March 30, 2021: Conference on family maintenance, Geneva

Webinar organized by the ODAGE - Speaker alongside Mrs Sophie Thorens-Aladjem, judge at the First instance Court of Geneva. Moderation by Annette Micucci

o March 19, 2021: IAFL Introduction to European Family Law Webinar

Divorce and financial splits: an essential outline - Speaker alongside Agne Limante, Sam Longworth, Iryna Moroz and Séverine Tamburini-Kender

o January 29, 2021: General Meeting on Family and Heritage Law, Paris

Workshop News and case-law in PIL animated with Mrs. Delphine Eskenazi, Alexandre Boiché and Professor Michel Farge

o 19 January 2021: The Law Society

Private Law Brexit transition - Divorce webinar. Speaker alongside Lisette Dupré, Alexandre Boiché and Elaine Richardson

• 31 January 2020: Etats généraux du Droit de la famille et du patrimoine, Paris

News and jurisprudence in PIL workshop with Alexandre Boiché and Delphine Eskenazi and Professor Michel Farge

• 20 March 2020: IAFL Introduction to European Family Law Conference, Kiev

Divorce and financial splits: an essential outline - Speaker

• March 2019: IAFL Introduction to Family Law Conference, Milan

The Modern Family, surrogacy, gay marriage and cohabitation rights - Speaker

• March 2019: Young Bar Association Conference, Geneva

Family law, selected aspects - Speaker

• January 2019 : Etats généraux du Droit de la famille et du patrimoine, Paris

Workshop Regards croisés sur l'autorité parentale et la résidence alternée animated with Mes Joaos Camara, Giulia Facchini Martini, Niamh Garvey, Arnaud Gillard, William Healing, Alice Meier-Bourdeau, Béatrice Vignolles

• October 2018 : National and international approaches to the regulation of surrogate motherhood, University of Lausanne

Speaker alongside Mr Michael Wells-Greco and Mr Konstantinos Rokas

• December 2015: First Tuesday - Workshops to discuss recent case law, Geneva

Workshop in family law with Mrs. Miranda Liniger Gros, Judge at the Court of First Instance

Languages Spoken

French, English, Spanish, Portuguese