Kanzlei Königstraße Köster & Kollegen

Family law regulates the legal relationships of persons who are connected through marriage, family and kinship. We will be happy to help you with a marriage in all questions that concern, for example, the drafting of a marriage contract. If you are unsure whether the matrimonial property regime of the community of accrued property should exist or whether the separation of property or community of property should be agreed, we are your contact. We are also happy to support and advise you out of court during the separation and in the run-up to a divorce.

Since an amicable divorce offers the possibility of ending a marriage with dignity and decency with advice that is tailored to your interests, we always try to work towards an amicable divorce first. However, should no agreement be reached, we will, of course, continue the proceedings in a contentious manner.

Therefore, we also advise and represent you in court disputes in all areas that need to be settled, such as separation and divorce, alimony matters, the regulation of parental care and contact, equalization of gains, equalization of pensions and contesting paternity. Family law has many references to other areas of law, such as inheritance law. Due to the versatile orientation of our law firm, we are able to advise you competently in these areas as well.

We primarily advise and represent medium-sized companies or shareholders and executives (managing directors, board members and supervisory boards) in founding, managing, restructuring and transferring companies.

The main focus of our work is advice on setting up a company and ongoing corporate law advice for medium-sized companies in the Stuttgart region and throughout southern Germany. But also nationwide, clients trust us in important special issues, such as corporate law litigation or the transfer and merger of companies. We have many years of experience in board and management matters, both on the part of companies and on the part of board members and managing directors.

We are also increasingly supporting foreign companies with their investments in Germany.

Your insurance company is refusing a claim, possibly after you've been paying for years? Does your financial existence depend on insurance benefits because you became unable to work? Does your private health insurance refuse to cover treatment costs?

In these and all other cases, we will represent your interests towards your insurance company and help you to assert your rights!

Civil service law in Germany regulates the special legal relationship of civil servants. Civil service law is part of public law and part of special administrative law. Civil service law includes all regulations that regulate the legal status of civil servants. This includes not only the general civil service laws, career regulations or salary and pension law. The supplementary regulations, such as the provisions on holiday, travel expenses or subsidy law, are also part of civil service law.

The civil service relationship (in particular justification, termination, rights and obligations) is unilaterally designed by law by the legislature, whereby the appointment is an administrative act that requires cooperation. Civil service law thus differs significantly from labor law, where the employer and employee negotiate an individual employment contract or the parties to the collective agreement negotiate a collective employment contract (collective wage agreement, works agreement).

Depending on the employer, a distinction is made between federal civil servants, state civil servants and local civil servants. Civil servants can also be appointed for life, on probation, revoked or for a limited period of time. Further differentiations result, for example, according to career groups (intermediate service, higher service, higher service).

The legal basis also differs between the federal states. At the federal level, the Federal Civil Servants Act (BBG), the Federal Salaries Act (BBesG) and the Civil Servants Pensions Act (BeamtVG) apply, while the states have enacted their respective state civil servants, state wages and state pensions laws themselves. The Civil Servants Status Act (BeamtStG) is also significant. In addition, there are other laws and ordinances issued by the federal government or the federal states, such as the working hours ordinance, vacation leave ordinance, maternity and parental leave ordinance, secondary employment ordinance, career path ordinance, federal disciplinary law. There are special regulations for certain groups of civil servants.

The key point is the “conventional principles of professional civil service” that apply to civil servants under Article 33(5) of the Basic Law (GG). This includes, among other things, the duty of loyalty of the civil servant, who faces a duty of care on the part of his employer. The concepts of official and fiduciary duty of the civil servant and the duty of care of the employer as well as the structure of the civil servant relationship as a mutual loyalty relationship are of particular importance in civil service law.

The most important duty of care is the obligation to provide appropriate alimony, which already follows from Article 33(5) of the Basic Law. This includes a salary appropriate to the office (cf. Federal Salary Act), retirement benefits (cf. Civil Service Pensions Act), the right to vacation (cf. vacation ordinances), medical assistance, allowances (cf. allowance ordinances), accident care, travel and relocation allowances . According to service law, the civil servant has the right to inspect the personnel file, to receive a service certificate and to file an application and make a complaint.

Regulations that differ significantly from labor law therefore apply to the public-law employment relationship of civil servants. Attorney Tobias Bastian advises civil servants on their rights and obligations.

Whether you are an employee, employer, managing director or manager, you are confronted with labor law issues every day. We are happy to support you and guide you successfully to your goal.

Have you been terminated for no apparent reason and without any misconduct on your part and would you like to take action against the termination?

Would you like to end an employment relationship with your employee, do you need an employment contract or a target agreement?

We would be happy to advise you at all stages of your employment relationship. We support you in the creation of job advertisements, the application process and in the concrete design of the contractual agreements. In the current employment relationship, we will be happy to advise you on all labor law issues from general business operations through to the termination of the employment relationship through termination or a termination agreement.

We will also provide you with competent and comprehensive advice on the subject of company pension schemes, job references, company co-determination, minimum wage, collective bargaining law as well as bonus agreements and target agreements.