Family disputes

Division of marital property

Division of marital property in Kharkiv is a legally regulated process of determining and distributing jointly owned property between spouses in accordance with the law and the interests of the parties.

We provide full support at all stages:

  • Preparation of legal documents

    A lawyer analyzes documents confirming ownership of jointly owned and personal property of the spouses, financial obligations, agreements, receipts, and other evidence. A legally substantiated position is prepared to ensure a fair division of property in accordance with the law and the client’s interests.

  • Legal assessment of violations

    A legal analysis is conducted of property acquired during the marriage, its legal status is determined, as well as the parties’ shares, potential risks, and prospects of the dispute. The lawyer explains optimal settlement options — through agreement or court proceedings.

  • Legal support in filing claims

    A lawyer ensures the preparation and submission of statements of claim, responses, motions, or settlement agreements regarding the division of marital property, monitors compliance with procedural deadlines, and represents the client’s interests in court or during negotiations.

  • Post-hearing protection of interests

    After the decision is issued, a lawyer advises on its enforcement, supports procedures for registering ownership rights, the division of funds or other property, and, if necessary, ensures further legal protection of the client’s interests.

Division of marital property in Kharkiv is a legally complex process that requires strict compliance with family and civil law, accurate determination of jointly owned assets, and a clear understanding of the mechanisms for their fair distribution. Without professional legal assistance, even minor mistakes in asset valuation, evidence of ownership, or the choice of legal strategy may result in the loss of part of the property or prolonged disputes.

By engaging our law firm in Kharkiv, you receive comprehensive legal support in the division of marital property at every stage. We analyze the circumstances of the case and the legal regime of the property, prepare the necessary documents, develop a legal strategy, conduct negotiations, or represent the client’s interests in court while ensuring compliance with procedural requirements.

We have extensive experience in handling marital property division cases in Kharkiv and understand how critical these matters are for a client’s financial stability and future. Each case is approached individually, taking into account the specific circumstances, the composition of the property, and the interests of the parties. Our goal is to ensure legal certainty, a fair outcome, and the client’s confidence in the protection of their rights.

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Our cases

Termination of parental rights

Enquiry:

His father, a businessman, did not want to be formally deprived of his parental rights and refused to pay child support. He participated in the proceedings through a solicitor and contested the claim.

What we do:

  • A series of reports were prepared and submitted to law enforcement and tax authorities to substantiate the illegal income schemes.
  • We conducted negotiations and ensured that the notarised documents were signed.
  • They drew up a legal strategy and succeeded in getting the father to admit the claim in court.

Result:

The court stripped him of his parental rights, and the child was placed in the care of a guardian who genuinely looks after her.

Case concerning the dissolution of a marriage registered in the UAE

Enquiry:

Such divorces are considered the most complex due to the possibility that the laws of a foreign country may apply, or because it may not be possible at all to hear the case in a Ukrainian court. The wife (our client) wished to divorce her foreign husband, with whom she had several children, all born and registered in various Arab countries. The marriage was registered in the UAE. Ukrainian courts require the original marriage certificate and retain it in the case file, but we did not have the original of this document. The couple had previously lived together in a foreign country, and under international law it was possible to apply the law of a foreign (Arab) state, which the husband sought to do in order to take the children.

What we do:

  • A court in Poltava refused to open proceedings due to the absence of the original marriage certificate and other objections regarding the lack of jurisdiction of the Ukrainian court over the case.
  • We filed for divorce at one of the courts in Kharkiv, having previously had two other cases on behalf of the client heard at the same court (concerning maintenance and determining the children’s place of residence with their mother) and won them.

Result:

We secured a court ruling granting a divorce without the original marriage certificate and in the absence of the respondent (the husband), obtained child support from the father, and established that the child would live with the mother.

Case concerning the termination of parental rights and adoption

Enquiry:

The client lived in a district town and sought to have the father’s parental rights terminated, as he had been absent from the child’s life for many years – he had not been in contact and had provided no support. However, the local child welfare service in that town was sympathetic to the father because they knew his family, who did not want their son to have his parental rights terminated, claiming it would be ‘a disgrace to the whole town’. The local child welfare service refused to assist, and so there was virtually no chance of winning the case in the district court.

What we do:

  • they registered the client in Kharkiv and enrolled her child in a school in Kharkiv; they brought the case before one of the courts in Kharkiv and also involved the Child Welfare Service in Kharkiv,
  • we received a favourable opinion from the Child Welfare Service regarding the appropriateness of terminating the child’s father’s parental rights, and we also obtained a court ruling in our favour,
  • The next step, also in one of the courts in Kharkiv, was the adoption of the child by the client’s husband.

Result:

The child’s ‘legal father’ was his wife’s husband, who had in fact already been fulfilling the role and duties of a father.