Anne REISER
Anne Reiser’s law firm active from 1 April 1984 to 31 January 2025.
Attorney-at-Law before the Geneva Bar
Since 1 April 1984, Me Anne REISER’s activity has been entirely devoted to her clients’ representation in Court and out of Court. Thanks to her extensive local and international experience, she has trained lawyers, lectured, spoke in the media, published and suggested legal changes intended to ensure consistency in the legal framework put to families and in the protection of family ties.
Noting that, in our current democracies, the legislator is assisted neither by a research and development department enabling it to test the effects produced by its laws before they are enacted, nor by a center for verifying the effects produced over time by enacted laws in order to check the adequacy of these effects with the objectives pursued, in 2014, Me Anne REISER created an ephemeral conciliation center, working in a multidisciplinary way in the family field. The observations made and results obtained in this context enabled her to draw up a draft amendment to the Swiss Code of Civil Procedure, which gave rise to the postulate no. 22.3380 of the Legal Affairs Committee of the National Council (CAJ-N) “Pour un tribunal de la famille” (“For a family court”), supported by Christian Dandrès, member of the National Council. This postulate was adopted by the National Council on June 8, 2022, and will be the subject of a Federal Council report to be published in early 2025. The explanatory memorandum was the subject of a multidisciplinary symposium organized by Me Anne Reiser with the Avenir Familles association on March 10, 2023. The texts of the postulate and the bill, and the underlying legal developments, submitted to the Federal Office of Justice, are appended to these proceedings.
In order to bring other projects to fruition, Me Anne REISER decided to give up her judicial practice on January 31, 2025.
This website is maintained in existence to provide access to her publications and to her interventions. It will soon be enriched with links to the projects to which Me Anne REISER now dedicates all her energy, in order to benefit the public.
Life is what happens to you when you had planned something else.
Families are built, decomposed and recomposed.
Family transitions can sometimes be difficult to handle.
Swiss and International family law sometimes lack coherence.
Some people do not have access to legal proceedings affecting them.
Other people feel that only their monetized worth matters.
The interplay of applicable laws often leads to unexpected results, particularly in international cases.
Children provide paths to solutions as much as avenues for conflicts. Applicable laws can make children hostages of poorly resolved conflicts between parents.
Fields of activity
All of the above areas in Swiss and International matters
Family Law including contracts, companies, trusts and pension assets
Children Law
Matrimonial Law and Property Law
Contract Law and Corporate Law
Family law for same-sex couples, including the reproductive rights
Criminal law related to these areas
Fathers’ rights
Domestic violence
Gender discrimination in the family context
We did everything we could to build an authentic, collaborative relationship with our clients in order to obtain, with them, the best possible results, using all the legal avenues that were available to us.
Swiss law favours freedom of contract in family relations by giving effect to family conventions. These conventions can include elements of foreign law, and be tailored to reflect the dignity of the people who have built unique family bonds between themselves. Once concluded, these conventions can be perfected into court judgments enforceable in Switzerland and other jurisdictions.
Children are an avenue to solutions as much as to conflicts, and the laws can make them hostages to poorly resolved situations.
Areas of expertise
Strategic advice tailored to ensure effective resolution of existing conflicts and anticipation of future conflicts. Design and oversight of strategies for court proceedings and negotiations, whether taking place solely in Switzerland or in several jurisdictions.
Court litigation and resolution of conflicts outside of court, including, when appropriate, in cooperation with other professionals and lawyers in Switzerland and abroad.
Pooling of skills from lawyers and professionals inside and outside the firm, collaborating across several areas of practice in order to best serve the goals pursued by our clients.
Action-oriented teamwork with clients, with a focus on their desires for the future.
Second advice to clients represented by other lawyers, and to lawyers advising their clients, assessing conflicts, strategies and possible results. Expert legal advice for court proceedings in foreign jurisdictions.
Continuing education on legal developments and the latest case law inside and outside the firm. Regular publications, conferences and media interventions in order to promote the coherence of the law and of practices in Family Law.
The interplay of applicable laws often leads to unexpected results, particularly in international cases.
CONTACT
Email :
Phone :
+41 22 807 33 67
For any request, please use the following address : a.reiser@reiser-anne.ch.