- Acts of: Birth, marriage, death, and their obtaining or correction; questions of civil status, gender recognition issues, marriages and the rights and duties of spouses, parents, children.
- Filiation issues: Recognition of children by natural parents; management of DNA investigations; child custody and abduction matters.
- Inheritance matters: Searches for, and drafting of wills, seeking of legitims, partition of estates and opening of successions.
- Separation issues i.e. questions regarding maintenance of spouses and children, custody, etc.