How to get your maiden name back after divorce online in Ukraine
The Family Code says that a person who changed his surname upon marriage has the right, upon divorce, to either leave this surname, or return his premarital, maiden name.
Therefore, if you dissolve your marriage through the registry office, then in the application for divorce, you should indicate information that you intend to return your premarital surname after the dissolution of the marriage and information that your surname will be changed.
How to get your maiden name back after divorce in Ukraine
If you indicated information in the application for divorce in the registry office or the court made a positive decision in your favor regarding the dissolution of the marriage and change your surname, then you should apply to the registry office with a written application to change your surname. You should also attach a document of intent to change your surname.
This document may be a court decision on divorce, which will contain a request from you to change your surname to premarital. You should also add photos and pay a state fee.
The cost of the state fee is 5 hryvnia 10 kopecks. But, if you change your surname again, the cost will be 51 UAH.
The Civil Registry Office will consider your application within three months and after three months will make a positive decision and issue you a certificate of surname change.
After you receive a certificate of surname change, a note is put in your passport that your passport is valid for only one month and must be replaced due to the change of surname.
In this case, you need to change the passport of a citizen of Ukraine. Also, you should change other documents such as identification number, driver’s license, passport, etc.
That is, in fact, with a change in your surname, you will definitely have to change all documents.
Additional advice from a lawyer in Ukraine
As promised, I give advice on what to do if you have already divorced and did not indicate in your divorce application that you intend to return your premarital surname.
In this case, you should simply contact the registry office at your place of registration and indicate that you intend to change your surname of your own free will, and not on the basis that you are divorced.
In this case, the list of documents will be wider than in the previous case.
In addition to the documents that I noted earlier, you also need to add:
- divorce certificate;
- Ukrainian passport;
- birth certificate;
- marriage certificate, if you are married;
- information that your mother and father have never changed their surname, first name or patronymic;
- birth certificates of children;
- a court decision on divorce,
- a receipt for payment of the state duty;
- photos.
Who and why will not be able to change the surname in Ukraine
I also want to say that the registry office may refuse to change your surname in the following cases:
- criminal proceedings have been opened against you or you are under investigation;
- you have outstanding or previously convicted;
- you have submitted inaccurate data;
- you are wanted;
- you have not submitted all the required documents;
- you are not a citizen of Ukraine.
Do not delay changing your surname after a divorce, contact our law firm advokat-family.com.ua and our lawyers will help you resolve issues in the field of family law.
Frequently asked questions to a lawyer in Ukraine
Useful site materials advokat-family.com.ua:
- Dissolution of marriage with a foreigner in Ukraine
- How to apply for divorce online
- Dissolution of marriage without the consent of the husband
- Divorce in a closed court session
- Divorce with a prisoner
- Divorce without presence
- Divorce through the court without children
- Terms of the divorce
- State registration of divorce
