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Article 350⁵ of the Civil Procedure Code of Ukraine stipulates that the applicant and the interested persons should participate in the court’s decision to grant a restraining order. If the applicant is subjected to threats of the further discrimination or violence, the case may be considered without the applicant’s participation. If a duly notified an offender does not appear, their absence shall not interfere with the decision to issue a restraining order. The decision to issue a…

Article 350² lists the persons who can apply to the court for a restraining order, which means a judicial measure that temporarily restricts rights or imposes obligations on a perpetrator of domestic violence and is aimed at ensuring the victim's safety. For example, the court may order a ban on staying in the common residence with the victim of domestic violence; prohibition to approach within a specified distance to the victim’s place of residence, study, work, or other…

Article 74 of the Family Code of Ukraine establishes rules governing property division in “civil marriages,” meaning that a woman and a man live together as a family but are not legally married to each other or to anyone else. Any property acquired by a couple in a civil marriage while living together is their joint property that will be shared or divided equally after the marriage ends, unless otherwise defined in a written agreement. Thus, in theory, the legal status of the property…

These articles determine the legal consequences related to joint property of the spouses after the dissolution of the marriage. Dissolution of marriage shall not terminate the joint ownership of any property acquired in marriage, meaning that co-owners shall manage any property that remains in their joint ownership upon divorce only on the basis of their mutual agreement. However, the Family Code protects the rights of divorced spouses: (i) they can agree to divide ownership of the joint…

Articles 60-61 state that any property acquired during marriage shall be jointly owned by the spouses regardless of whether either spouse did not make their own income for a valid reason (studies, household matters, children care, sickness, etc.).  Unless proven otherwise, every item acquired in marriage other than individual-use items shall be deemed to be jointly owned by the couple.  Article 62 states that if a spouse’s property has significantly grown in value during the…

Article 57 of the Family Code of Ukraine defines a list of types of property that are not considered joint property of spouses, for example: (i) any property acquired by either spouse before getting married; (ii) any property acquired under a gift agreement or as heritage during the marriage; (iii) any property acquired during marriage with one spouse’s own money; (iv) personal items such as jewelry, even if acquired with money owned jointly by the spouses, etc. However, according to…

Article 24 of the Family Code of Ukraine specifies that marriage requires the consent of the woman and the man, free from coercion. “Voluntary marriage” is a rather broad concept, which includes the right to freely decide to enter and maintain marriage, as well as to dissolve a marriage and terminate marital relations. At the same time, the Family Code requires that a court declare a marriage null and void if it was registered without the free consent of either party. Consent is not free and…

            Spouses who have children may file to a competent court a divorce application supported by a written agreement detailing with whom the children will live following the divorce, to what extent the other parent will support the children, and the other parent's right to care for the children. The competent court shall award a divorce one month following the submission of the divorce application, if it is established that the…

Articles 106-107 of the Family Code of Ukraine allow termination of a marriage by the civil registration office upon an application filed by the spouses who do not have children or one of the spouses (i.e., this is an out-of-court procedure for termination of marriage). Spouses who do not have children may file an application for divorce with the civil registration office (if the spouses have minor children, dissolution of marriage is possible only by court decision: see…

Termination of marriage is a legal status, after which the legal relationship between the spouses no longer exists. Articles 104-105 of the Family Code of Ukraine provide that a marriage is terminated if either spouse is presumed dead or declared missing. Dissolution is one of the types of termination of marriage provided by the Family Code. Dissolution can take place via in-court and out-of-court procedure, namely: (i) upon application to the civil registration office for divorce filed by (…