Family & Divorce
Grounds, marital property, custody, maintenance, and compensation, family matters that deserve a fair ending for everyone.
Family cases tangle emotion and law more than any other. Counsel who explains your rights plainly lets you decide on facts, not the feeling of the moment.
Since 2025, marriage equality is law, these rules apply to spouses of every gender.
What this dispute is, and where it comes from
Family disputes, divorce, marital-property division, custody, and maintenance. They arise from broken marriages, third parties, long separations, or spouses who agree to part but not on the children and assets.
Documents & evidence to gather first
- Marriage certificate and house registration
- Children's birth certificates
- Conduct evidence, chats, photos, police reports
- Records of assets acquired during the marriage
- Both spouses' income records
How we can help
Legal knowledge worth knowing
Key grounds: maintaining or honouring another as a spouse / adultery, gross misconduct, physical or mental cruelty, desertion over 1 year, consensual separation over 3 years, failure to maintain.
On divorce for adultery, compensation may be claimed from both the spouse and the third party.
On divorce, marital property is divided equally between the spouses.
Marital property covers assets acquired during marriage, fruits of personal property, and gifts so designated, doubt is resolved in favour of marital property.
Parents must maintain minor children, on divorce, custody follows agreement, failing which the court decides on the child's welfare and benefit.
Supreme Court No. 6164/2552, where the other woman knew the plaintiff was the lawful wife yet went on accepting maintenance and being held out as a wife, that infringed the wife's rights, and compensation may be claimed under Section 1523 paragraph two of the Civil and Commercial Code without any want of good faith.
Limitation periods and deadlines you cannot miss
- 1 yrGrounds-based divorce and third-party compensation, from knowledge (s.1529)
- 5 yrsArrears of maintenance, as periodic payments
The above is a brief summary of legal principles for general knowledge only, not advice on any specific case. Statutes may have been amended and application always turns on the facts. Please verify the current law or consult an attorney before acting.