Family law

How to get a birth certificate and passport for a child born abroad

A descendant of a Slovak citizen automatically acquires Slovak citizenship by birth. They are thus entitled not only to the...

Some decisions of foreign courts need to be recognised by a special procedure in a Slovak court. According to §...

Did you, as a Slovak citizen, marry a person of another nationality abroad? If so, don’t forget to register the...

One of the areas of family law is child custody, whether after the dissolution of marriage (divorce) or in the event that the...

If you were divorced in Canada, your Canadian divorce decree is not automatically recognized in the Slovak Republic. To be...

It often happens that the dissolution of a marriage occurs abroad. If a Slovak citizen subsequently wants to have the...

Slovak legislation distinguish between two forms of ownership – shared resp. mutual ownership of spouses and undivided co-ownership of spouses....

Particulars of the divorce proceedings in Slovakia Particulars of the divorce proceedings are governed by Act no. 99/1963 Coll. of...