{"id":95541,"date":"2019-04-04T09:59:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T06:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ypes.gr\/?page_id=95541"},"modified":"2020-07-01T09:06:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T06:06:19","slug":"divorce","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ypes.gr\/en\/divorce\/","title":{"rendered":"DIVORCE"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. If you have a judgment of divorce issued by a court in Greece:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Required documents:<\/u>
\n– The original irrevocable Judicial Decision;
\n– Service report or non \u2013appealing (in case of agreement between spouses);
\n– Certification from the Office of the Court which issued the decision, certifying that no ordinary or extraordinary appeal has been lodged;
\n– Divorce certificate from Church Authorities (only for religious unions);
\n– The applicant must have a valid identification document or passport.
\n– No fee is required if the birth is declared within the first 90 days.
\n– FEE Receipts of <\/u>fee paid to the Public Financial Service (<\/u>\u0394<\/u>.<\/u>\u039f<\/u>.<\/u>\u03a5<\/u>) or from eparavolo<\/strong> <\/u>https:\/\/www1.gsis.gr\/sgsisapps\/eparavolo\/public\/create.htm?langid=1<\/a>
\n– if the registration takes place between the 90th<\/sup> and 180th<\/sup> day a fee of 5.40 euro is required to be paid at the Public Financial Service (\u0394.\u039f.\u03a5) or the fee can be paid through eparavolo:<\/strong> code number 3826 for 5.40 Euros.<\/strong>
\n– if the registration takes place after 180 days from the birth, a fee 15.60 euro is required to be paid at the Public Financial Service (\u0394.\u039f.\u03a5) or the fee can be paid through eparavolo: <\/strong>\u00a0code number 3827 for 15.60 Euro<\/strong>s<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is declared at the Special Civic Registry a) by one of the spouses, b)\u00a0 by a duly authorized third party; by means of notarized Special Power of Attorney c) by a lawyer duly authorized; by means of notarized Special Power of Attorney d) by any person who has a legitimate interest. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

NOTE: The divorce may also be registered at the Registrar where the divorce report was issued.<\/p>\n

If you have a judgment of divorce issued by a court abroad<\/strong><\/p>\n

Required documents:<\/u>
\n– The original irrevocable decision issued by a court abroad, legally certified and officially translated1<\/sup>\u00a0into Greek. You may also submit a legally certified copy of it;
\n– A legally certified2<\/sup>\u00a0and officially translated Certification that the decision is final, (in case it is not referred to in the body of the Court decision);
\n– Recognition by the Greek Courts of the final decision issued by a court abroad (as applicable);
\n– The applicant must have a valid identification document or passport.<\/p>\n

Fee (<\/strong>See above)<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is registered at the Special Civic Registry by a) one of the spouses, b)\u00a0 by a duly authorized third party; by means of notarized Special Power of Attorney c) by a lawyer duly authorized; by means of notarized Special Power of Attorney d) by any person who has a legitimate interest. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The recognition by the Greek Courts of the final decision which is issued by a court abroad is not required, if:
\n– the final decision is issued by a court in a EU Member state (with the exception of Denmark).<\/p>\n

Also, no recognition is necessary from if the decision has been issued in the following countries:
\n– is issued by a court in ARMENIA (article 22 of law 3007\/2002),
\n– is issued by a court in GEORGIA (article 26 of law 2813\/2000),
\n– is issued by a court in ROMANIA (article 25 of law decree- law 429\/1974) and
\n– is issued by a court in SYRIA (article 26 of law 1450\/1984).<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Dissolution of marriage by way of notarial act in accordance with Law 4509\/2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Required documents:<\/u>
\n– The Notarial act
\n– A valid identification document or passport is necessary
\n– for solemnized marriages: the Holy Metropolis (which is the Head of the churches in the specific region) must issue a document on the spiritual dissolution of the marriage<\/p>\n

It is registered at the Special Civic Registry a) by one of the spouses, b)\u00a0 by a duly authorized third party; by means of notarized Special Power of Attorney c) by a lawyer duly authorized; by means of notarized Special Power of Attorney d) by any person who has a legitimate interest. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Note: <\/strong>No fee has to be paid for a late declaration of the dissolution of marriage by way of notarial act, since<\/strong> such a decision becomes final as of the date it is declared to the Special Civil Registry Section.<\/p>\n

\n[1]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Official translation: a) <\/strong>the document can be translated and certified by the Consulate or b)<\/strong> the document can be translated in Greece by the Section of Translations\u00a0(Arionos 10 and Ermou- Monastiraki) or c)<\/strong> by a qualified Greek lawyer.<\/p>\n[2]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 a) <\/strong>Apostille Stamp https:\/\/www.hcch.net\/en\/instruments\/conventions\/authorities1\/?cid=41<\/strong><\/a>) <\/strong>or b) if the country is not a member of the Apostille Convention <\/u><\/strong>certified by the Greek Consulate in the area of residence or c)<\/strong> if a EU member no other certification is needed.<\/p>\n

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1. If you have a judgment of divorce issued by a court in Greece: Required documents: – The original irrevocable Judicial Decision; – Service report or non \u2013appealing (in case of agreement between spouses); – Certification from the Office of the Court which issued the decision, certifying that no ordinary or extraordinary appeal has been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95541","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ypes.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ypes.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ypes.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ypes.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ypes.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95541"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ypes.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97437,"href":"https:\/\/www.ypes.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95541\/revisions\/97437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ypes.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}