Billigkeitsansprüche und Vermögensauseinandersetzung bei Scheidung der Ehe im deutschen und schweizerischen Recht

The division of property in the event of divorce following monetary, material or labour contributions that go beyond the usual amount or even the amount owed under maintenance law is particularly caught between legal certainty and fairness in individual cases. After a look at possible models and empirical values in Swiss family law, the author addresses the current trends in German jurisprudence, the question of the need for reform and concrete reform considerations in German matrimonial property law regarding the standardisation of so-called ancillary property law, the exclusion of marital-neutral changes in value from the equalisation of accrued gains and the revision of the provision on the transfer of assets.