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A Historic Step: Greece’s new legislation on same sex marriage by Konstantinos Stavropoulos, IAFL European Chapter Newsletter, Spring 2024 edition

Brief update on the reform of Greek family law regarding parent-child relations, International Family Law Journal, 2023 Issue 1, Pages 15-19

Family Law – Chapter for Greece by Haroula Constandinidou and Konstantinos Stavropoulos, Sixth edition 2023, Family Global Guide, Thomson Reuters

Family Law – Chapter for Greece by Haroula Constandinidou and Konstantinos Stavropoulos, Sixth edition 2023, Family Global Guide, Thomson Reuters

Family law in Greece: overview
Resource type: Country Q&A
Status: Law stated as at 01-November-2020
Jurisdiction: Greece
A Q&A guide to family law in Greece.
The Q&A gives a high level overview of key issues including jurisdiction and conflict of law; pre- and post-nuptial agreements; divorce, nullity, and judicial separation; children; surrogacy and adoption; cohabitation; family dispute resolution; civil partnership/same-sex marriage; and controversial areas and reform.
To compare answers across multiple jurisdictions visit the Family Country Q&A tool.
This Q&A is part of the global guide to Family law. This contribution, in its original form, first appeared in Family Law (2nd edition), General Editor James Stewart of Penningtons Manches LLP. Family Law was published in association with the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.

Contents
Jurisdiction and conflict of law, Regulatory framework, Jurisdiction, Domicile and habitual residence, Conflict of law, Pre- and post-nuptial agreements, Validity of pre- and post-nuptial agreements, Divorce, nullity and judicial separation, Recognition of foreign marriages/divorces, Divorce, Finances/capital and property, Finances/Spousal Maintenance, Child maintenance, Reciprocal enforcement of financial orders, Financial relief after foreign divorce proceedings, Children, Custody/parental responsibility, International abduction, Legal Aid, Leave to remove/applications to take a child out of the jurisdiction, Surrogacy and adoption, Surrogacy agreements, Adoption, Cohabitation, Family dispute resolution, Mediation, collaborative law and arbitration, Civil partnership/same-sex marriage, Media Access and Transparency, Succession Rights on Divorce/Dissolution, Controversial areas and reform

Contributor profiles
Haroula Constandinidou-Stavropoulou, Senior Partner
Konstantinos Stavropoulos, Partner

Application of the Protection Measures Regulation by Konstantinos Stavropoulos, IAFL European Chapter Newsletter, 2022, 1st edition

Brief update on the reform of Greek family law regarding parent – child relations

Haroula Constandinidou, Senior partner, Constandinidou-Stavropoulos-Stavropoulou Law Firm

Konstantinos Stavropoulos, Partner, Constandinidou-Stavropoulos-Stavropoulou Law Firm

International Family Law Journal

2023: Issue 1

Family Law – Chapter for Greece by Haroula Constandinidou and Konstantinos Stavropoulos, Fifth edition 2021, Family Law Global Guide from Practical Law, Thomson Reuters

Family Law – Chapter for Greece by Haroula Constandinidou and Konstantinos Stavropoulos, Fifth edition 2021, A Global Guide from Practical Law, Thomson Reuters

Family law in Greece: overview
Resource type: Country Q&A
Status: Law stated as at 01-November-2020
Jurisdiction: Greece
A Q&A guide to family law in Greece.
The Q&A gives a high level overview of key issues including jurisdiction and conflict of law; pre- and post-nuptial agreements; divorce, nullity, and judicial separation; children; surrogacy and adoption; cohabitation; family dispute resolution; civil partnership/same-sex marriage; and controversial areas and reform.
To compare answers across multiple jurisdictions visit the Family Country Q&A tool.
This Q&A is part of the global guide to Family law. This contribution, in its original form, first appeared in Family Law (2nd edition), General Editor James Stewart of Penningtons Manches LLP. Family Law was published in association with the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.

Contents
Jurisdiction and conflict of law, Regulatory framework, Jurisdiction, Domicile and habitual residence, Conflict of law, Pre- and post-nuptial agreements, Validity of pre- and post-nuptial agreements, Divorce, nullity and judicial separation, Recognition of foreign marriages/divorces, Divorce, Finances/capital and property, Finances/maintenance, Child maintenance, Reciprocal enforcement of financial orders, Financial relief after foreign divorce proceedings, Children, Custody/parental responsibility, International abduction, Leave to remove/applications to take a child out of the jurisdiction, Surrogacy and adoption, Surrogacy agreements, Adoption, Cohabitation, Family dispute resolution, Mediation, collaborative law and arbitration, Civil partnership/same-sex marriage, Controversial areas and reform

Contributor profiles
Haroula Constandinidou-Stavropoulou, Senior Partner
Konstantinos Stavropoulos, Partner

Legal recognition of gender identity in Greece, by Haroula Constandinidou, International Family Law Journal, 2017 Issue 4, Pages 257-310

The latest major legislative development relating to family law in Greece concerns legal gender recognition. On 10th October 2017, the Greek Parliament voted in favour of a new law, which recognizes gender identity as a protected aspect of an individual’s personality and, therefore, allows the selection of one’s legal gender.

Law 4491/2017 “Legal Recognition of Gender Identity, National Mechanism for Devising, Monitoring and Evaluation of Action Plans for the Children’s Rights and other provisions” explicitly states that gender identity is the “internal and personal” way in which a person experiences their gender, regardless of the gender attributed at birth based on physical characteristics. As a result of this, when there is a discord between one’s legally assigned gender and their perception of themselves, a person is allowed to petition the correction of their legally assigned gender.

This option extends to all adults with full contractual capability. Furthermore, the new law allows minors over 17 years old to select their legal gender, provided that they have the consent of the persons exercising their parental care. Minors over 15 years old may also correct their assigned legal gender provided that they have the above persons’ consent and prior to receiving the approval of a special committee, consisting of a child psychiatrist, a psychiatrist, an endocrinologist, a pediatric surgeon, a psychologist, a social worker and a pediatrician as chair, all of which must be specialists in this area.

Precipitating Consensual Divorce in Greece, by Haroula Constandinidou, International Family Law Journal, 2018 Issue 1, Pages 1-84

Consensual divorce procedure in Greece has now been significantly simplified by virtue of the new law 4509/2017 “Measures of treatment for persons who are exempted from sentence due to a psychological or mental disorder and other provisions”, which came into force on 22nd December 2017 and, inter alia, amended articles 1438 and 1441 of the Greek Civil Code. The main innovation of this new law is that a Court decision is no longer required for spouses wishing to acquire a consensual divorce. The termination of the involvement of the Court in the consensual divorce procedure is practically translated to quicker divorces, as instead of circa eight months to one year required previously, consensual divorces may now be obtained in less than one month.

«Regimes matrimoniaux dans le monde – Grèce» by Haroula Constandinidou and Konstantinos Stavropoulos, French legal journal «Actualite’ Juridique Famille», December 2017 edition, Dalloz

«Regimes matrimoniaux dans le monde – Grèce» by Haroula Constandinidou and Konstantinos Stavropoulos, French legal journal «Actualite’ Juridique Famille», December 2017 edition, Dalloz

“Matrimonial property regimes under Greek law and common practice, Greece” by Haroula Constandinidou, International Family Law Journal, 2017, Issue 3

According to the Greek law there are two systems regulating the property relations of the spouses: The system of property independence (system of separation of property art. 1397, 1400-1402 of the Greek Civil Code) and the system of community property (art. 1403-1416 CC).

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