US EditionThe President of a Country Rejected the Law "Rapid Divorce: It's "Socially damaging." The Angry Reaction of the Prime Minister
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The Conservative President of Poland, Karol Nawrocki, used his presidential veto on Thursday to reject a legislative reform already approved by parliament, which aimed to simplify divorce in the case of couples without minor children only by conducting a procedure at the Office of Civil Status. The argument of the initiators of the normative act was to avoid lengthy judicial proceedings.
The bill, authored by the Ministry of Justice, introduced the possibility of dissolving a marriage through proceedings taken before the head of the civil registry office. The head of the civil registry office would verify compliance with the statutory requirements for an out-of-court divorce and make the appropriate entries in the civil registry. This solution was to be applied only to married couples who did not have minor children together and…
President Karol Nawrocki vetoed the government's amendment to the Family and Guardianship Code, which was intended to introduce the possibility of extrajudicial divorce into Polish law. "There are matters that cannot be reduced to an administrative formality," he explained. The bill, authored by the Ministry of Justice, allowed for the dissolution of marriage through proceedings undertaken before the head of the civil registry office. He would v…
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