mediation Communication is always a big obstacle to overcome for international families due to the culture conflict,concept difference, and other differences caused by various factors. From our experience in dealing with international family cases, disputes usually happen between husband and wife,parent and children, or among other family members because of the differences in culture, concept, or even lifestyle. Finally they are the culprit to cause the family or marriage break-up. But it’s proved that most of issues can be resolved during mediation. If this unfortunately happened to you,how should you deal with it without going to court? It is well-known that efficient mediation must save the couple or family to rebuild the harmonious family; or even though the break-up is inevitable, mediation will help all parties to settle all issues concerned amicably, which is the good way to explore or discuss issues among them with the assistance and guidance from our impartial mediator. We, as international lawyers, provide mediation service for you to settle the difficulties you may encounter. Please let us know any difficulty you have! It is our philosophy to offer the best-qualified legal service for you.

Why you choose us? We are the professional law team specializing in international family law and private international law. We are the fellow of IAML (International Matrimonial and Family Law), fellow of Lawasia, member of All China Lawyer Association, member of Shanghai Bar Association (SBA), member of Civil Practice Research Committee of SBA, Specially invited Author of Law and Life sponsored by Law Press-China,Volunteer lawyer of Shanghai Bar Association, Member of Shanghai Interpreter’s Association (SIA). We have rich experience in international cases. We have the experience in providing Expert Opinions for courts in other jurisdictions, consulates in China, overseas organizations in the international civil cases, our lawyers were interviewed by Reuters, China Radio International (CRI), Outlook Weekly, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Evening Post and other world famous media on hot legal topics, were invited by European Union Member States (EUMS) to make special report on Chinese law for consular officers from nearly 20 European countries, make presentation at international conferences and provided legal training for newly practicing lawyers and made many professional speeches at legal conferences, such as International Private Law Conference, Civil Procedural Conference, Lawasia conference. Our lawyers are the contributing writers of LAW AND LIFE, the law magazine hosted by Law Press, the most famous press in law in China; we contributed International Marriage and Divorce, Family Business Succession, Influence of Divorce on IPO, etc. We have the stable cooperation with law firms and lawyers around the world. Weprovide legal services for our clients from all over the world in divorce,inheritance, division of marital or family assets, stock rights partition incommon company or listed company, employment disputes, corporate law, draw uplegal documents including but not limited to prenuptial agreement, marital agreement, divorce agreement, testament, forward proposals on company operation, immigration, the protection for the rights and interests in family and company, providing legal service for private legal counselor in different legal fields tailored to our clients. Our professional team is made up of lawyers with higher education degree, professional qualities and creativity. We can provide professional legal service in litigation and non litigation. It is our philosophy to offer the best-qualified legal service for our clients, our eternal aspiration to make concerted efforts to be the best professional lawyers.

Corporate Legal Counsel Corporate Legal Counsel In order to safeguard your enterprise from any kind of legal risks and crises, and ensure its sustainable and stable development, we can provide the following legal service for you: 1. Provide legal consulting or advice including but not limited to contract, labor, tax, intellectual property, import /export. 2. Draft, prepare, review or revise legal documents concerned with management. 3. Issue legal opinions for corporation management or decisions. 4. Provide preliminary analysis on potential legal risk. 5. Assistance in formulating and executing regulations. 6. Issue lawyer’s letter to settle disputes. 7. Provide assistance to apply for the relevant business licenses. 8. Provide the legal service in establishment of enterprise, share transfer, change of registered capital, enterprise’s merger or division, liquidation, asset restructure, etc. 9. Enterprise due diligence. 10. Dealing with the non-litigation matters 11. Provide the legal training for the staff concerned with corporate management or private matters. 12. Provide lawyer witness for the legal action or the written documents. 13. Negotiation 14. Deal with the labor disputes. 15. Making the evaluation for the relevant investment plans. 16. Deal with the litigation or arbitration matters.

Invitation for Private Legal Counselor Service From the moment when you set your foot onthe land of China, you may be curious about Chinese culture; however, in the course of your integrating yourself into Chinese culture and society, you may encounter some difficulties that you are not able to settle by yourself due to the differences in culture, concept, social system, etc. If in China, you have a private legal counselor to provide prompt and effective advice for you, you can surely settle all problems you meet efficiently and fruitfully. The private legal counselor service islong-term and stable, which is based on the mutual trust between the client and the counselor, and the private legal counselor is to help you to nip any legal risk or dispute into bud. Moreover, the legal service provided by private legal counselor is comprehensive, including all legal issues concerned with you. With the assistance of us, you will surelylive and work in China without any worry. All Lawyers ofwww.familylawcn.com

International Marriage While you and your fiancée, from different jurisdictions, are planning to register your legal marriage in China, what should you do? Do you have enough knowledge on Chinese laws? How to register your international marriage in China? What’s the rights and duties between you and your fiancée in your marriage? How to make your international marriage valid? … … We will provide including but not limited to the following professional legal service for you. 1. Evaluating the legitimacy of your marriage registration under Chinese laws; 2. Professional consultation about Chinese laws on international marriages; 3. Professional advice on prenuptial or postmarital life in China; 4. Professional advice and guidance in the process of registering international marriage in China; 5. Assistance to complete the marriage registration; 6. Any other legal service involved in international marriage registration in China. … …

International Divorce International Divorce Divorce is an important decision for anyone, however, if you have to face up it, what should you do to bring yourself a brand new start in your life? If both your parties can reach the mutual agreement on settlements for all issues, that means both you don’t have to spend too energy and time on the long-term war. In the whole process of uncontested divorce, we provide you professional legal service including but not limited to legal advice, negotiation, document draft, guidance in the procedures, notarization and legalization. However, if both your parties failed to reach mutual agreement on settlements, litigation is inevitable, that means if both your parties have any dispute in dissolution of marriage, asset division, debt burden, child custody, and other issues involved, either party can file the case to the court with jurisdiction. It’s the court with jurisdiction who makes the decision on all issues. So in the divorce proceeding, you should know something important to you: 1. Why he/she doesn’t agree to divorce? 2. Why does he/she want divorce? 3. Is it possible for the court to grant him/her divorce? 4. What’s the court decision on our marital assets? 5. Is it possible for me to get the custody of my child? 6. What rights and duty we have in the proceedings? 7. After divorce, shall I pay any alimony for her?/can I get any alimony from him? … … We provide you professional advice and guidance to protect your best interests.

Prenuptial Agreement Prenuptial Agreement A prenuptial agreement is a private agreement between two persons who are planning to marriage. The couple generally settles, in advance, property matters but not limited to property matters, in the event of death or divorce. It is very important to clarify what properties are pre-marital ones, since many disputes and arguments can not be avoided during the marriage or during the course of divorce if pre-marital properties can not be distinguished from post-marital properties. The time when the property obtained is the crucial element while judging pre-marital property. It is impossible to prove the exact time when expensive property obtained, and without enough evidence to prove the pre-marital property, the judges will classified them as jointly owned property. Even during the course of divorce, if you have signed a pre-nuptial agreement to arrange both of your property, the agreement is binding to both of you. What are the steps to create a prenuptial agreement? 1. Determine whether you need a prenup. Actually, it is better to create a prenuptial to reduce the trouble in the future to almost nil. 2. Open a discussion with your spouse-to-be about the prenuptial agreement well in advance of marriage. 3. Consult with a lawyer about related law. 4. Offer fair and full disclosure of your property and make a list of all of your assets and liabilities as detailed as possible. 5.Reach an agreement with your spousal-to-be on how to share in all of the assets and how to pay pre and postnuptial liabilities. 6.Enquire enough legal advices from processional family lawyers. 7. Creating a prenuptial agreement.

Marital Agreement Marital Agreement This is the agreement concluded during your marriage to stipulate the ownership of your marital assets, rights and duties shared by both you and your wife/husband. The legal marital agreement is valid and binding to both you. Can you sign a marital agreement during your marriage? We provide legal service including but not limited to as follows: 1. Provide legal consultation about Chinese laws concerned with marital agreement. 2. Evaluate the possibility and necessity of marital agreement. 3. Legal analysis on structure of marital agreement. 4. Discussion about items in the agreement. 5. Provide all relevant legal advice concerned with the agreement. 6. Draft the marital agreement. 7. Review or revise the marital agreement. 8. Provide legal assistance for the whole process of conclusion of the agreement.

Inheritance Issue Inheritance Issues If you have to inherit any asset in China or make plan for your asset in China, inheritance legal proposals are required: 1. What can be inherited as the inheritance in China? 2. Who has the legal rights to inherit the heritage? 3. How to inherit the heritage under Chinese laws? 4. What is the legal testament under Chinese laws? 5. How to prove the validity of heritage? 6. How to inherit the common property of the couple? 7. How to inherit the family property? 8. How does a Chinese court deal with the inheritance disputes? We provide all legal service necessary to inheritance issues for you: 1. Making all documents including but not limited to testament, agreements. 2. Dealing with issues concerned with testamentary trust. 3. Private counsel. 4. Deal with litigation in the inheritance proceedings. 5. Any other legal service concerned with inheritance issues.

Asset Division While you have to unfortunately go through divorce, besides dissolution of your marriage, asset division has to be settled, or after divorce, you have to divide some asset without settlement in the process of divorce. Generally you may encounter the problems including but not limited to the following: 1. What asset shall be divided as the common properties? 2. Will your assets owned before marriage be divided? 3. How to deal with the pension insurances? 4. How to deal with your company set up before marriage? 5. How to deal with your share held in any company? 6. How to deal with your business set up during your marriage? 7. How to deal with your insurance? 8. Will your intellectual properties be divided? 9. Can you divide the asset in China after you divorced in any other jurisdiction? 10. Is there any way fulfill the asset decision made by courts in other jurisdiction? … … So when you begin the property division process, it is vital for you to have an experienced lawyer on your side to help you toward your new life and a fresh start. Please contact www.familylawcn.com when you are concerned about what you will get in the proceedings of asset distribution. We will help you with your difficulty throughout the process.