Sejm: There should be more time to change your name after divorce

Extending the deadline for submitting a declaration of return to the surname before marriage is a long -awaited and needed change – assessed MPs who debated the government proposal of amendment on Wednesday.

The government draft amendment to the Family and Guardianship Code assumes the extension of the deadline for the divorced spouse a declaration of return to the name he had before marriage, from three to 12 months after the divorce decision becomes final.

MPs who took part in Wednesday's discussion were agreed: the designed change is needed and awaited.

MP Bartłomiej Wróblewski, who spoke on behalf of the PiS club, assessed that the change should be carried out because “he solves a significant social problem and meets social expectations.”

He pointed out, however, that problems related to family issues should be considered by the Extraordinary Commission for changes in codification.

Katarzyna Kierzek-Koperska, MP KO, noticed that the problems regarding the return to the name of the divorce were reported by both the people whose problem concerned and the registry offices.

“This was often due to the fact that this judgment (divorce judgment – PAP) did not come to the registry office on time or simply the spouses during the divorce overlooked this deadline – this is a difficult trial in the case of marriage when there is a breakup” – she explained.

In turn, MP Bożenna Hołownia (Polska2050 – TD) pointed out that The applicable law comes from 1964 and does not correspond to today's reality – “Both, in terms of stability of marriage, through attachment to personal roots, to the efficiency of the functioning of courts obliged to pass on divorce judgments to the marital status.”

“In addition to social changes, divorce cases are often associated with strong emotions that limit the ability to make rational decisions,” she said.

Minister Zuzanna Rudzińska-Bluszcz, Undersecretary of State at MS, answered the questions and comments of parliamentarians.

“Some people who divorce do not know this three -month date, so they make a statement too late. For parts The divorce is emotionally expensivetherefore they actually fail to make it within three months to make this statement, “she admitted.

In her speech, she also referred to the issue of blocking the child's contacts with a second parent during the discussion. “Family law codification commission develops executive provisions, also in relation to contacts – so that the state is not powerless, if the court weighs all reasons and, however, establishes such contacts as establishing in its decision,” she said.

The draft amendment submitted by the Ministry of Justice is one of the deregulation projects. He went to the Marszałkowska Laska at the beginning of May. His third reading was planned for the next sitting of the Sejm – MP Barbara Dolniak (KO) asked for the adoption of the project on behalf of the Deregulation Commission.

In the light of the applicable right, persons who do not manage to meet the relevant formalities in the aforementioned three months can only change the name on the basis of the act amending the name and surname, which is associated with a more complicated administrative procedure.

According to the data of the Central Statistical Office, 56.9 thousand occurred in 2023. divorce.

Katarzyna Czarnecka (PAP)

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