Solicitor for Family Law in Marsa

My spouse and I in Malta have decided we want to get divorced, and we’re on relatively amicable terms about it. I’ve heard something about having to attend mediation first before actually filing anything with the court. Is this genuinely mandatory, or can we skip straight to divorce proceedings?

I’m going through a separation in Malta and there has been a history of domestic violence in our relationship that I believe is relevant to how issues like custody and the overall separation should be decided. How does Maltese family law actually treat this kind of history when determining separation and custody matters?

My child currently attends a private school in Malta, an arrangement we agreed on together while still married, but since our separation, my ex is refusing to contribute anything toward the fees, saying our child could just attend a state school instead. Can I legally require them to continue contributing to the private school costs?

I’m considering pursuing an annulment of my marriage in Malta rather than a divorce, since I believe there were serious issues present even at the time we got married. What’s actually the difference in outcome, and what would I need to show for an annulment to succeed?

My spouse and I are separating in Malta and we have one child together. I want to understand roughly how child maintenance payments are actually calculated here, since we haven’t been able to agree on a figure ourselves and I want to know what a court might consider reasonable.

My spouse and I in Malta are going through a divorce and I want to understand, in general terms, how property we’ve accumulated during the marriage is typically divided under Maltese law, since we didn’t sign any specific marriage contract beforehand regarding our finances.

My spouse and I got married in Malta several years ago under the default community of acquests, but our financial circumstances have changed significantly and we’d now like to change our matrimonial property regime. Is this actually possible once you’re already married, or is that decision locked in permanently at the time of marriage?

My spouse and I in Malta have been living separately for about eight months already, but we’ve only just formally started separation proceedings, and I haven’t received any financial support from them since we split. Can maintenance be backdated to cover this earlier period we already spent apart?