How often do married couples in the region apply for divorce at civil registration authorities?

We remind you that now spouses who have mutually decided to dissolve the marriage, have no common minor children and property disputes, can apply not to the court, but to the registry office at the place of residence of the husband or wife. This is provided for by the new edition of the Code of the Republic of Belarus on Marriage and Family, which entered into force on January 1, 2013. This innovation was a forced measure to relieve the judicial bodies of the abundance of civil cases and leave only those divorce proceedings that require consideration within their competence. At the same time, we were interested in how much the flow of appeals to the registry offices has increased due to changes in legislation?

– As of February 25 of the current year, 78 marriages have been dissolved by the registry offices of the region, 28 of them in Vitebsk, – comments Tatyana Egorova, chief specialist of the main department of justice of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee. – In principle, there is no great excitement. There are also district registry offices that have not received a single application for divorce during the reporting period.

Tatyana Mikhailovna also emphasized that the dissolution of marriage is carried out one month after the submission of a joint application. A reduction of the specified period is not provided for by the current legislation, as citizens who have applied sometimes mistakenly think.

By the way, a more complete analysis of the work of the Vitebsk registry offices in this direction will be carried out by employees of the justice authorities five months after the law comes into force, and it will be possible to judge the effectiveness of the innovation in practice.

Natalia RYBKOVA. "Vitsiebski Rabochy"