Marriage taken less lightly
In the first six months of 2013 private and public notary offices certified 651 prenuptial agreement, while in the same period last year, 536 such agreements were certified, says the press service of the Ministry of Justice.
The most active in concluding prenuptial agreements were Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa and Kharkiv regions. The lowest number of marriage contracts was registered in Cherkassy, Sumy and Kirovograd regions. While in the first half last year in Kyiv 195 marriage contracts were certified, in the first six months of 2013 the number grew to 228.
Therefore recent trends show increasing legal awareness among the population and overcoming ever prevailing stigma in the society that marriage and property rights are two different things. As you know, marriage contracts, and, therefore, protection of property rights in case of divorce in developed countries, including Europe, are quite common.
