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Rechtsanwalt Rainer Wiesehahn - rarw.de - calculate for free the financial risks of a lawsuit in Germany

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How much is a lawsuit in Germany?

If you or your company have legal trouble in Germany this programme may help you to overview the financial risks of a lawsuit.

Explanations

Please enter the value in dispute

Extrajudicial

Judicial: 1. instance without agreement

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Judicial: 2.instance without agreement :

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Extrajudicial:

If the lawyer only advises you without any further activity as for example writing a letter to the other party, he gets the "Erstberatungsgebühr" (Fee for the first advice) of a maximum of 190 Euro plus "Auslagenpauschale" (Lump sum of expenses) of 20 % which is limitated to a maximum of 20 Euro and 19 % V.A.T..

The complete lawyer fee is net:
Euro

Basically it is 1.3 of the complete fee mentioned above:
Euro

Plus Lump sum of expenes:
Euro

Intermediate sum:
Euro

Plus 19 % V.A.T.:
Euro

Total sum:
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Judicial: 1. instance without agreement

Judicial: 1. instance with agreement :

Judicial: 2.instance without agreement :

Judicial: 2.instance with agreement :

Judicial: 1. instance without agreement :

The lawyers get 2.5 complete fees plus lump sum of expenses (20 % or rather 20 Euro ) and 19 % V.A.T..
With a decision of the court the judicial costs consist of 3 fees.

The judicial costs are:
Euro

The opposing lawyer gets:
Euro

Your lawyer gets:
Euro

If you lose your lawsuit you have to pay totally:
Euro

Back Extrajudicial Judicial: 1. instance with agreement : Judicial: 2.instance without agreement : Judicial: 2.instance with agreement :

Judicial: 1. instance with agreement :

The lawyers get 3.5 complete fees plus lump sum of expenses (20 % or rather 20 Euro ) and 19 % V.A.T.. With a decision of the court the judicial costs consist of 3 fees.

The judicial costs are:
Euro

The opposing lawyer gets:
Euro

Your lawyer gets:
Euro

If you lose your lawsuit you have to pay totally:
Euro

Back

Extrajudicial

Judicial: 1. instance without agreement :

Judicial: 2.instance without agreement :

Judicial: 2.instance with agreement :

Judicial: 2.instance without agreement :

The lawyers get 2.8 fees plus lump sum of expenses (20 % or rather 20 Euro ) and 19 % V.A.T.. With a decision of the court the judicial costs consist of 4,5 fees. The costs for a lawsuit at the Supreme Court are
not considered.

The judicial costs are:
Euro

The opposing lawyer gets:
Euro

Your lawyer gets:
Euro

If you lose your lawsuit you have to pay totally:
Euro

Back Extrajudicial Judicial: 1. instance without agreement : Judicial: 1.instance with agreement : Judicial: 2.instance with agreement :

Judicial: 2. instance with agreement :

The lawyers get 3.8 fees plus lump sum of expenses (20 % or rather 20 Euro ) and 19 % V.A.T..
With a decision of the court the judicial costs consist of 4,5 fees. The costs for a lawsuit at the Supreme Court are
not considered.

The judicial costs are:
Euro

The opposing lawyer gets:
Euro

Your lawyer gets:
Euro

If you lose your lawsuit you have to pay totally:
Euro

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Explanations:
This programme calculates how much you will have to pay for legal advice or for a lawsuit in Germany.

This is only for disputes that are calculated according to the value of the matter. These are basically civil law cases and public law cases.

Here we don't calculate the costs for criminal law cases, criminal tax law cases or fine cases.

Furthermore we only consider the costs for one person. If there are more than one person on your or the opposite side the costs are higher.
Nor do we calculate the costs for east Germany - the former German Democratic Republic where the costs are 10 % lower.

You only have to enter the value of your legal problem into the field and click on "Evaluate".

If you don't know how much is the value in dispute click on Further Information to get more details.

Further Information

The value of your legal problem depends on the value of your matter.
Examples:

If you have bought a used car in Germany for 5000 Euro and you want to cancel this purchase the value of the matter is 5000 Euro.

If you have sold your german house for 500.000 Euro and the buyer still owes you 100.000 Euro the value is 100.000 Euro if you want to claim the missing sum.
In family law cases like divorces etc. the value consists of the 3 monthly netto income of both partners. If both earn together 4000 Euro every month the value is: 3 x 4000 Euro = 12.000 Euro.