Amparo Arbáizar is the founding partner of Arbáizar Abogados. She is a Spanish lawyer (abogado) and a certified mediator. Amparo has been working as a lawyer in the field of international family matters and international successions for more than 15 years. Her field of expertise includes all aspects of family law, in particular, divorces and financial settlements, liquidation of matrimonial property regimes, arrangements for children, international child abduction cases, maintenance obligation enforcements, civil partnership matters, unmarried couples, same-sex marriages and surrogacy. Amparo is a lecturer in international private law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Alicante (Spain) and a research fellow in EU family law and the law of successions at the Spanish ‘Instituto Superior de Derecho y Economía’ (ISDE) in Madrid. Amparo holds an LL.M. degree in European and International Private Law from the University of Trier (Germany). Her mother tongue is Spanish and she is fluent in English and German.
