Divorce is not only an unpleasant situation of a personal nature, but also a certain bureaucratic procedure, which, like other registration actions in our country, requires the payment of a state fee.
Registration of divorce is a public service, for the provision of which it is necessary to pay the fee established by applicable law.
Divorce in civil registry offices
Article 19 of the Family Code of the Russian Federation, registered in the code of laws of our country under number 223-ФЗ dated December 29, 1995, establishes that if both spouses agree to divorce, they can perform this procedure without unnecessary bureaucratic delays - directly in the body civil registration records (registry offices), for example, in the same place where the marriage was registered. However, such a simplified procedure for registering a divorce is possible only if there are no minor children in this family.
Article 333.26 of the current part 2 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation, which was assigned the number 44-ФЗ dated August 5, 2000, determines that in this case the amount of the state fee payable for the work of the civil registry offices will be 400 rubles. At the same time, each of the spouses is obliged to pay such a fee when divorcing.
Divorce through court
However, in some cases, the application of such a simplified divorce procedure is not possible. In particular, as Article 21 of the Family Code of the Russian Federation establishes, a court will have to turn to a court in order to obtain a divorce if the family has minor children. In addition, in the same way will have to do if only one of the spouses wants a divorce, and the second categorically refuses to divorce. Finally, a spouse seeking a divorce will also have to file a lawsuit with the divorce husband if the second spouse, although not directly opposing the divorce, but in every possible way evades the execution of this procedure.
The size of the state fee in all these cases will be the same as when divorcing by applying to the registry office: each of the spouses will have to pay 400 rubles.
