What is an Administrative Divorce?
Divorce by Administrative means is define legally as:
“It is the voluntary action of the spouses who have been married for more than 1 year and who decide to divorce“
What are the Administrative Divorce Requirements?
To start the Divorce procedure, the following requirements are needed:
- That the spouses are of legal age
- That the conjugal partnership has been liquidated
- That the woman is not pregnantto
- That they do not have children in common, and if there are any, that they are of legal age
- That neither the children nor any of the divorced spouses require alimony
How long does the Administrative Divorce process take?
The competent Authority of the Civil Registry first verifies that the spouses are identified to draw up an Act that day in which both request the Administrative Divorce and then sets a second appointment in the next 15 days to confirm their decision.
When ratifying their decision in the second appointment, they will be declared divorced and the corresponding annotation must be entered in the margin of their marriage certificate.