Master in Family and Childhood Law
Program director:
Doña Delia María Rodríguez Rodríguez
Campus:
Madrid
Date:
September 2026
LANGUAGE:
Spanish
The legal specialty where every decision impacts a real life.
Learning Family Law isn’t just about studying articles of the Civil Code.
It’s about knowing how to act when a client comes with a personal conflict, a child is involved, and a legal decision leaves no room for improvisation.
This Master’s Degree in Family, Child, and Inheritance Law is designed so that your first family case isn’t the first time you face the real responsibility of this practice.
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Introduction and objectives
The Master of Specialization in the Practice of Family and Childhood Law will allow you to make your vocation a way of life, providing you with the professional skills necessary to be able to practice as a lawyer in this area and even to create your own office with people who are similar to you.
Training as a great family lawyer is one of the clearest signs of living the profession as an authentic vocation.
After all, this area is in a way a summary of everything that the law is and what it protects. The common and the individual, the public and the private and very especially the defense of the weakest. All this makes the professionals who work in this area “of a different kind” and have a clear vocation for the subject.
The Master’s Degree in the practice of Family and Childhood Law will allow you to make this vocation your way of life, providing you with the professional skills necessary to be able to practice as a lawyer in this field. The perfect combination of theory and practice from Spain’s most prestigious family law firms makes this Master’s the perfect choice if you want to work for a specialized firm or create your own professional project.
These professionals will make you know and master all the procedural and technical aspects, as well as the last jurisprudential tendencies, at the same time that they will perfect all those essential tools for a correct professional performance from the beginning to the end of the most frequent procedures, either by the friendly or contentious way.
How to attract clients, what to bear in mind when setting your fees or what guidelines you should take into account for the best defence in court are some of the skills you will learn through the most complete programme available in the current training offer.
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Structure, location and calendar
CAMPUS: Madrid
DURATION: One academic course
STRUCTURE
Two phases:
Phase one: Classroom instruction:
- During the first semester, students attend classes Monday through Thursday, in the afternoon.
- Some mornings per week students will attend lectures and practical sessions in ISDE’s offices and collaborating institutions, with offices in the city of Madrid.
- Fridays are dedicated to personal study, group work and workshops.
Second phase: Integration in internships:
- Obligatory phase. Between 3-6 months, within the area of family and childhood law, in one of ISDE’s collaborating firms.
Career Opportunities
Specialized departments, within large law firms.
Law firms, specialized in family law.
A specialized law firm venture.
ACADEMIC PROGRAM
Start of the Master’s Central Block
- Basic Concepts and Figures in Family Procedures
- Evolution of Family and Cohabitation Models.
- Analysis of the Main Family and Childhood Processes in Spanish Legislation.
- Practical Drafting Workshops.
- Procedural and Substantive Law in Family Processes.
- Practical Workshops on Procedural Skills and Courtroom Techniques.
- Evidence in Family Procedures.
- Interrogation Techniques.
- Appeals in Family Processes (first and second instance and cassation).
- Practical Workshops.
Expert Block on Children’s Law (30 hours)
- Precautionary Protection Measures for Children and Adolescents (civil order).
- Juvenile Offenders.
- 360° Protection of Children in the Digital World.
- Other Protection Measures and the Role of the Public Prosecutor.
- Assisted Human Reproduction – Genetic Manipulation.
- Protection of Children in Cases of Neglect.
- Practical Workshops.
Expert Block on Gender Violence and Domestic Violence (30 hours)
- Introduction to Criminal Processes of Gender Violence.
- Basic Procedural/Substantive Issues.
- Legal Assistance to Victims of Gender Violence and the Accused.
- Complaint/Indictment.
- Investigation.
- Request for Protection Order for Victims of Gender Violence.
- Hearing.
- Key Issues of the Trial.
- Domestic Violence.
- Cases Involving a Jury.
- Practical Workshops.
Block on Property and Fiscal Issues in Family and Inheritance Law (18 hours)
- Marriage Agreements.
- Marital Property Regimes.
- Settlement of Marital Property: Mutual Agreement and Litigation.
- Key Taxation Issues in Settlement and Inheritance Processes.
- Introduction to Inheritance Law.
- Practical Workshops.
Block on Cross-Disciplinary Skills for Family Law Practice (24 hours)
- 360° Marketing.
- Communication: Public Speaking, Negotiation, Mediation.
- Coaching and Well-being.
- Artificial Intelligence Applied to Family Law.
- Role-playing Trials (4).
Block on International Family and Inheritance Law (60 hours)
- GENERAL PART
- International Marriage.
- Marital Crises.
- European Maintenance Law.
- Child Abduction.
- International Mediation.
- International Inheritance.
- SPECIAL PART
- Terminological Issues in the International Field.
- Matrimonial Property Regime of England and Wales.
- Matrimonial Property Regimes of Germany.
- International Child Abduction Spain-Germany.
- International Child Abduction Spain-England.
- Peculiarities of International Abductions Outside Europe.
- International Mediation.
- International Filiation. Surrogacy.
- Surrogacy Management from the Perspective of Different Countries.
- International Adoption.
- Practical Workshops.
FACULTY
Updated management and faculty:
- Director: Ms. Delia María Rodríguez Rodríguez. CEO of Vestalia Asociados.
Prestigious practicing lawyers in the field of Family Law:
- Ms. Paloma Abad Tejerina. Managing Partner at Abad Saez Abogados.
- Ms. Adriana de Ruiter. Lawyer / TULP Abogados.
- Ms. Paloma Zabalgo. Managing Partner at Paloma Zabalgo Abogados.
- Vicente Tovar. Magistrate on leave of absence. Managing Partner at Vicente Tovar Abogados.
- Ms. Carmen Varela Álvarez. Managing Partner at Carmen Varela Abogados.
- Ms. Delia Rodríguez. Managing Partner at Vestalia Asociados.
- Ms. Diana Carrillo. Family lawyer.
- Ms. Adriana Rodríguez. Family lawyer / Vestalia.
- Ms. Mariola H. Quesada. Lawyer and coaching specialist.
- Ms. Cristina Díaz-Malnero. Family lawyer and President of the Family Law Section of the ICAB.
- Ms. Julia Clavero. Family lawyer, partner at ABA Abogadas.
- Ms. Flora Calvo Babío. Family lawyer / Winkels Abogados.
- Ms. Ana Criado Inchauspé. Lawyer and mediator.
- Ms. Ana Piernas López. Lawyer & Rechtsanwältin, Cross-Border Mediator.
- Álvaro Escudero. Criminal defense lawyer.
- Ángel Alcázar. Family lawyer.
- Ms. Beatriz Waucquez. Family lawyer. Vestalia.
- Ms. Carolina Quintana. Family lawyer.
- Ms. Cristina Fernández Herrero. Family lawyer.
- Eduardo Chaperón. Lawyer / Berenguela, tax law firm.
- Enrique Sainz Rodríguez. Lawyer / Fuster-Fabra Abogados.
- Jaime Sanz Fernández-Soto. Family lawyer / Safe Abogados.
- Jorge Martínez Martínez. Lawyer / Superbia Jurídico.
- José Aurelio García Mateos. Court expert / IT Audit and Forensic Analysis.
- Ms. Laura Arranz Lago. Consultant, lawyer, mediator and coach.
- Ms. Laura Ortega Almodóvar. Family lawyer / Vestalia.
- Ms. Lola Calderón. Family lawyer.
- Ms. María Giráldez de Luis. Family lawyer / SGS.
- Ms. María Sonsoles Vidal Herrero-Vior. PhD in Criminal Law / UCM.
- Ms. Natalia Tejera Beamud. Family lawyer.
- Ms. Patricia Orejudo Prieto de los Mozos. PhD in Law.
- Ms. Pilar Fernández-Dengra. Family lawyer.
- Raúl Herrera García. Lawyer.
- Ms. Rosa López. Family lawyer. ABA Abogadas.
- Ms. Rosa Pérez Villar. Family lawyer.
- Ms. Silvia Varela Modroño. Family lawyer. Vestalia.
- Ms. Susana Villalba Álvarez. Mediator and family lawyer.
- Ms. Zayda Mª Sierra Sánchez. Attorney of the Civil and Mixed Units.
Magistrates and specialized prosecutors:
- Ángel Luis Campo Izquierdo. Judge at the Provincial Court.
- Ms. Natalia Velilla. Judge on secondment at the Provincial Court of Madrid (Family Section).
- Ms. Escarlata Gutiérrez. Prosecutor at the Territorial Section of Manzanares, Provincial Prosecutor’s Office of Ciudad Real.
- Juan Pablo González del Pozo. Judge assigned to Family Court No. 24 of Madrid.
- Ms. María Gavilán Rubio. Judge at Court of First Instance No. 56, Madrid.
- Ms. Emelina Santana Páez. Judge of Family Court No. 79 and currently President of the 24th Family Reinforcement Section, on secondment with relief of duties.
- Carlos Viader Castro. Judge.
- Luis Aurelio González. Judge.
- Ms. Elena Valdivieso Barrera. Prosecutor.
- Luis Sanz Acosta. Judge.
Other professionals:
- Ms. Ana Isabel Salegui Gutiérrez. Forensic expert psychologist.
- Ms. Lola Murias. Private investigator.
- Juan Martín Gravina. Actor.
*Faculty is subject to change
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.