In general, are there precedents that show that Russian law will honor a foreign/American pre-nup if that is what the parties agreed to do when they got married and signed it? Does it matter that the document was not done in Russian if I can prove she understood what she signed?

Rights of the child

Divorce and division of property

Withdrawal of the Child`s registration in Russia

Agreement on the child

Tax question concerning residents and non-residents of Russia

During our stay in USA my husband and I gave birth to a daughter. We are all citizens of Russia. When I was pregnant our relations were damaged, and I decided not to register my husband as father of my daughter. Presently, my husband (her father) lives in Russia. I live in New York and I am going to start divorce proceedings in Russia – according to place of residence of my spouse, but I am afraid that my husband may make me bring my daughter to Russia. My husband presently does not have any documents proving existence of my daughter, but I am afraid that in the course of divorce proceedings he may send a request to the archives and may receive her birth certificate. Is it possible to somehow avoid this problem?

That is the main question: what should be done to get divorced and what should be done not to make the issue re: our daughter an obstacle during the divorce proceedings? Frankly speaking, it is hard for me to formulate the issue more precisely, because all possible scenarios of development of this case, which I can imagine, come to the same thing, i.e. that I will have to return my daughter (and, naturally travel to Russia myself), because he will request the court to guarantee his rights to see her.

Dear Mrs. Krasnova,

I found your site on the internet and I have some question concerning apostille on certificates. My wife to be has gotten a marriage and divorce certificate from her home town (Shahkty near Rostov) but there is no Apostille attached. She is now living in Kyrgyzstan and cannot get an apostille there. It took her 6 months to get this document and now it is not legal in Europe. I have some questions: Is it possible to attaches an apostille on the originals when she is in Moscow?

If it is possible, where can she do it and what time she needs to do it? (She can stay some days in Moscow).

If it is not possible, how can she obtain this documents WITH apostille and within 6 weeks?

She has made translations from them and are 'legalized' (she says) by the Russian consul. Is that lawful?

Is it possible that YOU can do all of this, if yes how much will it cost and how long does it take?

I am divorced from a Lady from Russia since 08 August January 2007. The divorce was in mutual agreement and occurred in Moscow. I live in United States, now she also lives in America. She has just now applied for Divorce and a claim on my assets in New York.
During the Application for Divorce in Moscow I think I remember a question about claims on each others assets.

Does a question on claims on each others assets exist during the application process for divorce in Moscow. If so what is the name of this document? Is it possible to obtain without traveling to Russia?

I was married with a Russian woman in the May of 2004. Because of me, she got a green card in the USA and she is a permanent resident of the USA this days. In one year our son was born. He got US citizenship by birth and my wife obtained Russian passport for him in consulate. Now our co-life isn’t good, and she wants to divorce according to the Russian laws. She convinces that the son was registered in Russia, though we permanently are living in the USA, and I don’t know how it is possible. I don’t want to divorce in Russia, to which we haven’t any concern and, especially, I don’t want that my son will live in Russia. Could she kidnap the child and secretly take it to Russia? What is the penalty of this in Russian laws? How could I prevent the legal investigation in Russia?