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Mona Lagrange Guezguez

Senior Associate

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Mona Lagrange Guezguez

Senior Associate

Contact
CMS Pasquier Ciulla & Marquet
Villa des Cigognes
17 rue Louis Aureglia
BP 450
98012 Monaco Cedex
Monaco
Languages French, English, Arabic

Mona Lagrange Guezguez is a Senior Associate in the Private Clients team.

Mona advises and assists individual clients on family law issues. She specialises in international private law, contentious and amicable divorce, as well as the legal protection of adults and minors (parental authority on minors, international child abduction and protected adults). She has also developed a particular expertise in adoption law.

Before joining the firm in 2015, Mona studied comparative juvenile law and worked at the Direction de la Protection Judiciaire de la Jeunesse in Paris.

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Publications

  • The impact of the Private International Law reform in Monaco on mariage contracts, divorce and successions, Monaco AJ Famille (2019)
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Education

  • Preparatory classes to access to the National School for Magistrates (2010)
  • Master's degree in Comparative Family Law, University of Paris (2010)
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Expertise

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26/02/2024
Cohabitation under Monegasque law
Definition Cohabitation is a de facto union, characterised by a stable and continuous life together, between two people living as a couple. Although it is a form of free union, cohabitation is not protected...
Publication
04/05/2023
Relocation of the habitual residence of a protected adult abroad - does...
Taking into account that it is essential to ensure the protection of adults who, because of an impairment of their personal capacities, are unable to protect their interests in a cross-border context...
Publication
12/04/2023
The defence of minor's interests in the proceedings
The role of a minor in civil proceedings is now recognised at both national and international level. By way of illustration, a minor who is capable of discernment may be heard in the context of divorce...
Publication
22/12/2022
How to ensure you appoint a trusted person in the event of incapacity?
Legal source The Enduring power of attorney (EPOA) was introduced by law n°1474 of 2 July 2019. It is a protection system of a conventional nature allowing any person to designate, in advance, by POA...
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01/09/2022
New clarifications made by the Monaco Supreme Court on the conditions for...
The Monaco Supreme Court granted, on the 12 July 2022, a resident’s request to annul the decision refusing the renewal of their ordinary residence card. 1.    The minimum period of three-month residency...
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07/07/2022
Publication of children's pictures on social media
Not all acts of the parental responsibility have the same scope. Therefore, they are divided into usual acts, which can be performed by only one parent (the consent of the other parent being presumed)...
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30/11/2021
Vaccination of minors and parental responsibility
Vaccination against Covid-19 is open to minors aged 12 to 18. This vaccination is not compulsory. However, questions can arise in relation to the consent needed for vaccination of a minor - consent from...
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02/11/2021
Minor children as shareholders of a “société civile particulière monégasque”
A “Société civile particulière monégasque” (Monegasque private company) is a very effective estate planning tool and is widely used as such. When considering the involvement of minor children...
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17/04/2020
COVID-19 and Exercise of parental responsability
The COVID-19 epidemic has led the Monegasque authorities and those of the neighbouring countries to take drastic health and legal measures to slow down the spread of the disease. These measures include...
Publication
06/01/2020
Act No 1.470 of 17 June 2019 on adoption
Did you know?Statutory provisions on adoption have been changed as a result of the Government passing Act No 1.470 of 17 June 2019. The Act seeks to give greater weight to three fundamental points: -  ...
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06/01/2020
Adoption of a child under a "kafala" arrangement
Did you know?Monegasque case law recently found that, where a child with Moroccan nationality had been taken in under kafala by a Franco-Mone­g­asque national, and subsequently acquired French nationality...
Publication
23/04/2019
The impact of the private international law reform in Monaco on marriage...
Christine Pasquier Ciulla, Partner, and Mona Lag­range-Guezguez, Associate, have published an article on « The impact of the private international law reform in Monaco on marriage contracts, divorce...
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