Dr Joanna Kosińska-Wiercińska
Professional qualifications. Member of the Warsaw Bar, 2002.
Areas of practice:
Adoption; appeals; childcare/public law; child custody/residence/visitation/contact; child support; cohabitation; collaborative law; divorce; domestic abuse/violence/protection orders; emergency procedures/injunctions; enforcement: child custody, child support, property division, spousal support; finance: property issues; Hague Convention/child abduction; mediation; modification/variation: child custody, child support; property division, spousal support; parentage/paternity; pre-nuptial/post-nuptial agreements; relocation; removal from jurisdiction; same sex partnerships; spousal support/maintenance/alimony.
Non-professional qualifications:
Warsaw University Doctorate in Law 2003.
Recent transactions
Dealing with the safe return of abducted children to Denmark, Spain and Holland.
Provides expert reports in international family law cases for English courts.
Languages:
Polish, English, French.
Professional associations/memberships:
Fellow of International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers; Taught civil law at Warsaw University and Łazarski University in Warsaw
Publications:
Co-author of “Family Law. Jurisdictional comparison” and several scholarly articles concerning Polish family law.
Jacek Wierciński, Professor of Law
Professional qualifications:
Professor of Law at University of Warsaw; member of the Warsaw Bar, 2001
Languages:
Polish, English, German.
Professional associations/memberships:
Member of Association of Family Judges in Poland; Polish Civil Law Codification Commission – Family Law and Succession Law Groups and Child Ombudsman’s Codification Commission of Family Law; Appeared as an expert witness in US courts; frequently lectures on various law topics to the judiciary, bar associations and others.
Areas of practice:
International family and succession law; property division; defamation and litigation.
Publications:
Editor and author of “Commentary to Family and Guardianship Code” and “Commentary to Succession Code” the leading treatises on Polish family and succession law. Also the author of “Protection of a good name” and “Testamentary capacity and undue influence” and a series of influential and scholarly articles on The Hague Abduction Convention and other issues.
