Zimina Irina

Irina Zimina

Head of Family Law and Inheritance Planning practice. Attorney

Faculty of Law, Lomonosov Moscow State University, University of Paris West, Paris-X Nanterre La Défense

29 years of attorney's experience.

Specialization: advising of private clients on family law and inheritance planning; assistance in resolving disputes between spouses and other family members; representation of clients’ interests in conclusion and performance of marital contracts, child support and child custody agreements, property division agreements, taking into account the location of marital property in different jurisdictions; representation of clients’ interests in courts in inheritance disputes, paternity establishment disputes, marital property division disputes, disputes about children, including cases with foreign nationals; representation of clients’ interests in issues related to international child abduction and child wrongful retention.

Internship at the law firm "AK-avocats", Paris, France.

In 2011 Irina graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Paris West University Nanterre La Defence, majoring in "INTERNATIONAL AND EUROPEAN LAW", specializing in the "Judicial Resolution of Disputes in International and European Law" with a MASTER degree.

Irina had Certificate of gratitude of The Private Law Research Centre under the President of the Russian Federation named after S.S. Alexeev.

Recommended in individual rankings: PRAVO-300 in the category of Family and Inheritance Law; Kommersant – in Family and Inheritance Law, and Rossiyskaya Gazeta – in Family and Inheritance.

Projects

Representation in divorce, division of property and child dispute case

Representation of the interests of the spouse in court as a plaintiff in a case on termination of marriage, division of property, recovery of maintenance for the spouse and a minor child and determination of the place of residence of the child

Victory in a precedent-setting dispute on determining the children’s place of residence

The Infralex family and inheritance law practice team, led by lawyer Irina Zimina, won a precedent-setting dispute on determining the place of residence of minor children

Victory in a precedent-setting dispute on marital property division

The appellate court ruled in favor of our trustee and awarded her ownership of the entire apartment, obliging her to pay her ex-husband compensation for his share of the right.

Invalidation of a will dispute

The Infralex team represented the interests of the defendant in court. A post-mortem forensic psychiatric examination was carried out in the case at the National Medical Research Center for Psychiatry and Narcology named after V.P. Serbsky, which fully confirmed the legal capacity of the testator at the time of drawing up the will.

Determination of the child’s place of residence

Infralex lawyers represented the interests of the child's father, a foreign citizen. During the consideration of the case, the court was presented with reliable evidence of the fact that the child’s mother has not been caring for the child for a long time, is not involved in his upbringing and maintenance, and that the child’s father has completely taken care of him. The guardianship and trusteeship authority supported the claim of the child's father in full.

Alimony recovery dispute

Advising the principal in the case of collecting alimony for the maintenance of minor children from the ex-spouse.