Family law experts

We are glad to offer our services to expats and foreign citizens in Russia in all cases concerning Russian law.

First, we help you determine the jurisdiction that suits best for your case settlement. Second, if the case is to be submitted to a court in Russian Federation, depending on your goals and strategy, we either help you speed up the process or, on the contrary, prevent the case from being passed to the Russian courts if possible. Third, when necessary, we assist with the procedure of getting a foreign court decision recognized in Russian courts.

Our key competencies include:

Divorce settlement and assets protection under Russian law

Foreigners marriage dissolution in Russia

Child arrangement involving different citizenships

Alimony in international cases

Marriage contract to protect property in Russia

We help our clients achieve the best financial outcomes in their divorce settlements.

Common cases include:

• Property in a foreign jurisdiction
• Property acquired during marriage but with the money earned before marriage
• Spouse sold or gave away the property to avoid the division
• Spouse attempting to the property (house, financial assets, etc.)
• Spouse demanding half of the personal property (inherited, gifts from parents or relatives, etc.)
• Transfer of a business
• Transfer of a mortgage or other loans
• Spouse uninformed about the debts of another
• Spouse’s creditors demanding payment from another
• Other

We can represent our clients’ interests when:

• A spouse has no intention to divorce and does not give their consent
• The marriage has been registered outside Russian Federation
• One of the spouses is a foreigner
• A spouse has moved away and their new location in unknown
• The spouses live in different cities
• One of the spouses had no intention to start a family (e.g., a case when the marriage has been registered for obtaining Russian citizenship)
• Other cases

We successfully protect our clients’ interests in the following situations:

• Establishing or contesting paternity when:
  • Paternity is questionable
  • The man has been recorded as a father illegitimately
  • The mother does not admit the man to be a father
  • Adoption issues
• Deciding on the child’s primary residence via court order in the following cases
  • Father threatening to abduct the child
  • Mother is incapable of taking care of the child
  • Spouse with the child moving away to another city or country
  • The child wanting to live with another parent
  • Other
• Child arrangement orders (when, where and for how long the child will see another parent)
  • One parent does not allow the other to see the child
  • Communication with the parent negatively affects the child
  • The court’s child arrangement order not being executed
• Facilitating non-judicial negotiations on the child arrangement
  • Agreement on parent’s rights exercising for the parent living separately
  • Child’s communication with the grandparents, siblings and other relatives

We can help our clients in the following cases:

• Spouse demanding alimony illegitimately
• Collecting alimony from a spouse with no/little official income
• Collecting mother’s alimony after a child’s birth
• Reducing the amount of established alimony
• Reducing the amount of alimony debt
• Signing alimony agreement

Assisting couples in creating a robust and stable base for their marriage by drawing up a prenuptial agreement.

Writing post-nuptial agreements based on prenups or according to the new circumstances to ensure the basis for maintaining amicable relationship in a couple.