Family and Childhood Law Specialist Course
Program director:
Campus:
Madrid
Date:
March
LANGUAGE:
English
International family and succession law is best learned through a global perspective.
The Expert Course in International Family and Succession Law offers advanced training to help you understand and confidently apply the rules and legal solutions governing cross-border family and estate matters. This program is designed to provide you with a comparative and strategic approach, enabling you to navigate cases involving multiple jurisdictions, legal systems, and transnational situations with confidence.
With a practical methodology focused on real-life scenarios, you will develop competencies that integrate civil, procedural, and tax considerations in a globalized context. Through the study of complex casework and mastery of international legal tools, you will be prepared to intervene effectively both in specialized law firms and in organizations and professional environments that require experts capable of managing challenges beyond borders.
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Introduction and objectives
The expert course in International Family and Inheritance Law is made up of two phases, the first of them theoretical-practical, while the second will be developed with a pioneering learning methodology based on workshops and the analysis of real cases that will allow students build on previously acquired knowledge.
The program’s primary objective is to provide the student with the knowledge, tools and information necessary to be able to solve with solvency and rigor different casuistries of high complexity within International Family and Inheritance Law, such as the abduction of minors Spain-Germany and Spain-England, or the peculiarities of international abductions outside Europe (such as the impossible Russia and Japan).
The sessions on transversal skills, such as conflict mediation with an international perspective, will provide students with a clear added value as expert professionals in this complex and exciting subject.
The program will also provide students with highly specialized training in current issues and legal interest such as international affiliation and surrogacy in the US or Ukraine.
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Structure, location and calendar
The full course will last approximately 1 month.
Classes and practical workshops will occupy 3 hours a day, from Monday to Thursday.
The first 15 hours of the program will be dedicated to theoretical-practical classes, from the general part of the course.
Career Opportunities
- Lawyers specialized in family and childhood.
- Mediators
ACADEMIC PROGRAM
GENERAL PART
- International marriage.
- Marital crises. Divorce and international separation. International judicial jurisdiction. Applicable Law. Extraterritorial effects of decisions. Practical cases.
- European Food Law. Competition. Applicable law. Recognition and execution of resolutions regarding maintenance obligations. Practical cases.
- International protection of minors
- International child abduction
- Economic matrimonial regime. Competition. Applicable law. Recognition and execution of resolutions in matters of matrimonial property regime European Food Law.
- International succession.
SPECIAL PART
- Terminological issues in the international area. Foundations of law in proceedings in Spain with a foreign element. The proof of foreign law.
- Marital property regime in England and Wales
- German matrimonial property regimes
- International Child Abduction Spain-Germany
- International Child Abduction Spain-England
- Peculiarities of international abductions outside Europe. The impossible: Russia, Japan…
- International mediation
- International affiliation. Surrogacy gestation
- Surrogacy in the USA. Pros and cons. practical issues.
- Surrogacy in Ukraine. Pros and cons. practical issues
- International adoption
- International adoption- ECHR case study.
FACULTY
Direction:
- Delia María Rodríguez.
- CEO de Vestalia Abogados de Familia.
- Acting secretary of the Asociación Madrileña de Abogacía de Familia e Infancia (AMAFI).
- Founding partner of Plataforma Derecho y Familia.
- Family yearbook coordinator (Colección Actualidad) of Tirant lo Blanch (2020-actualidad).
Faculty:
- Carmen Varela. CEO Carmen Varela Abogados de Familia.
- Adriana de Ruiter. Lawyer in Tulp Abogados and President of the ASIME Board
- Carolina Pedreño. Lawyer in Dawson Cornwell
- Paloma Zabalgo. CEO Paloma Zabalgo Abogados
- María Gavilán. Magistrate and judge of the Courts of the Province of Madrid
- Emelina Santana. Magistrate Provincial Court No. 9 of Madrid
- Ana Piernas López. Lawyer and international Mediator
- Diana Carrillo. CEO Diana Carrillo Abogados
- Cristina Díaz Malnero. Associate attorney at DWF-RCD and Mediator.
- Ana Criado. Lawyer and mediator in Ana Criado Mediador
- Vicente Tovar. Magistrate on leave of absence.
- María Giráldez. Lawyer and mediator at SGS Family Lawyers. Founding member of Plataforma Familia y Derecho.
- Silvia Giménez-Salinas. Lawyer and mediator at SGS Family Lawyers. Founding member of Plataforma Familia y Derecho.
ACCREDITED DEGREE
Once the relevant Program has concluded and ISDE has verified that the STUDENT has completed their work satisfactorily, the STUDENT will receive the corresponding Degree certificate for each PROGRAM.
In compliance with current legality and, specifically, as set forth in article 4.4 of decree 84/2004, it is noted that ISDE’s programs are professionally oriented and therefore, unless explicitly stated otherwise, they are courses that do not lead to the acquisition of a title with official value, but to that of a proprietary title from ISDE.