MLaw Carla Bergianti
Attorney at Law
Mediator
Collaborative Lawyer clp Switzerland
Carla Bergianti works as a consulting attorney, as a specialist clp schweiz for collaborative law (clp lawyer), and as a mediator in inheritance and family law. She supports her clients in particular in marriage and inheritance planning, the drafting of a wide variety of tailor-made family and inheritance contracts, and in maintenance law issues. A particular focus of her work is on alternative dispute resolution, whether in the context of joint counseling, clp proceedings, or mediation. In addition to her work at DAVATZ LEGAL, Carla Bergianti serves as a district judge at the Horgen District Court. She regularly publishes and lectures on family law.
Preferred areas of law
Inheritance law
Family law
Professional career
since 2025
Attorney at law and Mediator, DAVATZ LEGAL
since 2025
District judge (50%) at Horgen District Court
2024–2025
Substitute judge at the Horgen District Court
2023–2025
Attorney at law at a Zurich-based family and inheritance law firm
2020–2023
Court clerk at Horgen District Court
2020
Auditor at Horgen District Court
2018–2019
Research assistant at a chair for public law at the University of Zurich
2017–2018
Paralegal at a medium-sized law firm in Zurich
2014–2016
Legal assistant at a Zurich law firm specializing in family and inheritance law
Education
2025
Basic training in mediation and basic training to become a clp Switzerland specialist in collaborative law (clp attorney)
2022
Admission to the bar
2019
University of Zurich, Master of Law (MLaw)
2017
University of Zurich, Bachelor of Law (BLaw)
Publications
BERGIANTI CARLA, Calculation of the excess share of children of unmarried parents in alternating custody, discussion of Federal Supreme Court 5A_384/2024 of September 10, 2025, iusNet FamR 01/2026.
BERGIANTI CARLA, Child's share of surplus, discussion of Federal Supreme Court 5A_920/2023 of November 28, 2024, iusNet FamR 01/2025.
BERGIANTI CARLA, Amendment to maintenance for care in the event of additional income of the caring parent, discussion of Federal Supreme Court 5A_176/2023 of February 9, 2024, iusNet FamR 05/2024.
BERGIANTI CARLA/RIEDO RAPHAEL, The State as a User of Social Media – A Critical Examination of State Rules of Conduct, in: Julia Meier/Nadine Zurkinden/Lukas Staffler (eds.), Law and Innovation, Innovation through Law, in Law and as a Challenge for Law, APARIUZ, Zurich 2020.
REETZ PETER/SOHM MARTIN/BERGIANTI CARLA, Sales Contract, Work Contract, and Order Law, Developments 07/2014–2016, in: Hans-Ueli Vogt (ed.), njus, Bern 2017.
REETZ PETER/BERGIANTI CARLA, Case law in civil procedure law in 2015 (Q2–4), 2016, and 2017 (Q1), in: Olivier Hari (ed.), Aktuelle Anwaltspraxis 2017, Bern 2017, p
, pp. 499–522.
Lectures
Lecture at the Schulthess Forum conference on matrimonial property law, "Business and marriage—a risky combination?", together with attorney Silvano Arpino, Zurich, June 18, 2025.
Interview on SRF Swiss Radio and Television on the topic of "Large pension gap between men and women," available at "https://www.srf.ch/news/wirtschaft/21-000-franken-weniger-ungleiche-renten-fuer-frauen-was-koennen-sie-dagegen-tun"(The big pension gap between men and women), broadcast on the program 10 vor 10 on June 23, 2023.
Memberships
Zurich Bar Association, Inheritance Law Section
Zurich Bar Association, Family Law Section
Zurich Bar Association, Civil Procedure Law Section
International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA)