Carla Simmelink

More about me

Carla Simmelink is a renowned lawyer with 21 years of experience. She is known for her thoroughness and the excellent results she achieves for her clients. With a clear and pragmatic communication style, she makes complex legal issues understandable. Carla’s primary goal is to achieve sustainable solutions that truly help clients move forward. In legal conflicts, she defends her clients’ interests with determination, using her extensive knowledge and experience.

Expertise

Carla specializes in personal and family law, name law, private international law and inheritance law. She handles cases such as international divorces, alimony, custody arrangements and relocations with children. In addition, she has extensive experience with issues surrounding first name changes and non-binary statuses. With her in-depth knowledge of multiple areas of law, she quickly gets to the heart of your legal challenges and consistently strives for the best outcome for her clients. This means she can help you with inheritances, (international) divorces, alimony, custody and relocations with children. She also knows a lot about first name changes and now, often relatedly, about obtaining non-binary status (gender neutral). International cases involve questions such as when which court of a country has jurisdiction and which country’s law should be applied.

Training

Carla completed her studies in Dutch law at Maastricht University, supplemented by the European Law School where she studied the legal systems of EU member states. She has also completed specialized modules in insurance law, psychiatry, psychology, ICT and law at Utrecht University.

Work Experience

After completing her studies, Carla started her legal career in 2004 as a lawyer trainee at Van de Sande Advocaten in Rotterdam, focusing on family law, employment law and real estate law. In 2007, she transitioned to Kabalt & Schuurman in Breukelen, where she handled a wide range of legal issues in a general practice. She then joined B& Advocaten in Utrecht in 2010, where her work focused mainly on (international) private law and family law. Here she focused on contract, property and estate law, further developing her expertise in complex legal structures. In 2018, she founded Simmelink Law Firm, where she continues her passion for the law and dedication to client service. Her entrepreneurial background and experience in various legal fields enhance her ability to effectively represent and assist clients.

Register of Jurisdictions

Carla Simmelink has registered the following areas of law in the Register of Jurisdictions of the Dutch Bar Association:

• General practice
• Persons & family law
  • Private international law
  • Divorces
  • Child support cases
  • Access Arrangements
  • Parenting and recognition
• Psychiatric patient law

Pursuant to this registration, she is required to obtain ten training points in each registered main area of law each calendar year according to the standards of the Dutch Bar Association.