After the opening of Russia's borders in the early nineties, marriages with foreigners became much more common. But like any other unions, such marriages can break up. In this case, you need to know how to properly file a divorce.
Instructions
Step 1
Find out if your marriage was legalized in Russia. This is quite simple to do - if you registered your relationship at the registry office or went through the procedure for confirming your foreign marriage certificate in Russia or at its embassy in another country, then your marriage is legalized.
Step 2
Divorce legalized marriage in Russia. In this case, you can act in the same way as other people wishing to get a divorce in Russia. Submit the documents to the court, which will send a notice of the beginning of the process to your spouse. If he ignores this information and does not appear at the court session, the marriage will be dissolved without his participation. The issue of division of property may be more complicated. The court can decide on the real division of only those valuables that are in Russia. If the main property is located abroad, then the issue will have to be resolved there.
Step 3
If the marriage was concluded in another country, then there you will be considered married regardless of the decision of the Russian court. Therefore, go through the divorce procedure there too. Its details depend on the specific state. But if you are not going to marry a foreigner again, then you will not necessarily waste time on divorce in a foreign court, especially if it costs money.
Step 4
Please note that the legislation regarding the custody of children born in wedlock can vary greatly from country to country. The Russian practice, in which the mother receives custody of children in most cases, does not comply with the legislation of many other countries. Therefore, it is important in which country the child will be at the time of the court decision. If he is in Russia, then the foreign spouse will not be able to simply take him out without the decision of the other parent. The same system operates in many other countries. Therefore, in order to avoid conflicts, it is best to agree in advance about who will have primary custody of the child and how the second parent will be able to communicate and meet with him.
