Family Disputes

Our highly experienced and skilled team in Vasiliou Law undertakes a broad spectrum of family law matters, such as divorce, alimonies (child and spouse alimony), property division, guardianship, paternity recognition, custody and visitation rights, adoption, enforcement in Cyprus of Court Orders issued in another country and others.

We provide our individual clients with analytical advice as to their rights and obligations in case of any family law matter, by explaining Cyprus Court procedures, limitation periods and jurisdictional laws.

 

An important requirement for the family Courts to have jurisdiction is that one of the parties or both parties are resident in Cyprus for a continuous period of three months or more. However, the dispute involves property relation, then there is no need for any of the parties to be residents in Cyprus.

A decision issued by a Court of another country can be enforced in Cyprus provided that Cyprus has an agreement with that particular country for mutual recognition and enforcements of judicial decisions with the country issuing the decision. If the country issuing the decisions is an EU Member States, then the enforcement will be effected by using the EU Regulations.