Family and Inheritance Law

Family is probably the most important value for every human being. To feel love, to respect each other, to bring up children is something that everyone needs. But in life, there are sometimes certain obstacles to the family idyll, common interests cease to be common, and spouses no longer feel the former respect for each other, which ultimately, unfortunately, leads to the termination of the family as a whole.

The ASTEELEX provides services in the field of family and inheritance law, including legal advice, drafting of contracts, statements of claims, and other documents that regulate marital, family, and inheritance relations.

Understanding the specificities of the practice of Family and Inheritance Law, we have an individual approach to each client. After studying the specifics of the situation and the client’s wishes, we offer the most convenient and effective solution.

An important advantage of ASTEELEX is the ability to involve narrowly focused specialists from other practices: corporate and tax. This allows us to comprehensively assess the issue and find the most appropriate solution.

High-quality and timely legal assistance in family law matters will help you save energy, time, and money, and sometimes even find a way out of a conflict situation at the initial stage through compromise, without bringing the conflict to a critical point.

Advising and representing clients in family and inheritance matters:

• Divorce in court between Ukrainian citizens, as well as in cases with foreign citizens
• Recognition of marriage as invalid or not concluded
• Division of matrimonial property in court proceedings, as well as cases concerning recognition of ownership of personal property that is not subject to division
• Contesting marriage contracts, agreements on the division of property, maintenance agreements, agreements concluded by one of the spouses without the consent of the other spouse, and other agreements on family matters
• Property and non-property rights of persons living without marriage registration, establishing the fact of living in a marriage without its registration
• Alimony relations (recovery of alimony, reduction or increase of alimony, and other issues related to maintenance of children and one of the spouses)
• Establishment of the fact of paternity/maternity, recognition of paternity/maternity, denial of paternity/maternity
• Deprivation and restoration of parental rights
• Determining the child’s place of residence, determining the procedure for communication, education, and maintenance of the child by the separated parent, removing obstacles to communication with the child
• Allowing a child to travel outside Ukraine with one of the parents temporarily or permanently, as well as unlawful change of the child’s place of residence by one of the parents, removal of the child, and return of the child to the previous place of residence
• Extension of the time limit for accepting an inheritance
• Abolition of the right to inherit and recognition of property rights by inheritance
• Recognition of property rights by acquisitive prescription