Marriage and partnerships
We offer services in matters related to marriage and partnerships, and help with the registration of legal documents concerning partnerships and keeping personal data up to date.
Are you getting married?
Before the marriage ceremony, you need to request an investigation of impediments to your marriage from us. You can make an appointment for a civil marriage ceremony.
Find out more:
- Examination of impediments to marriage
- Marriage ceremony
- Making an appointment for a marriage ceremony
Prepare for the division of property
In case of a separation, it’s good to prepare for the division of property. Deliver the prenuptial agreement to us for registration.
Find out more:
Do you live abroad?
Report any changes to your personal data to the Digital and Population Data Services Agency. This way your data will be up to date and using the services of the Finnish authorities will be easier. Finnish citizens have a legal obligation to make sure that their personal data is up to date in the population data system.
- Marriage concluded abroad
- Divorce issued abroad
- Applicable legislation concerning marriage
Links to laws related to the matter
Act on the Dissolution of the Household of Cohabiting Partners
See also
Contact us
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Telephone
Telephone service from Monday to Friday 9–12
Telephone number +358 295 536 244, the service number is national.
Service locations
Postal address (prenuptial agreements)
Digital and Population Data Services Agency, P.O. Box 1003, FI-02151 Espoo
- Individuals
- Marriage
- Examination of impediments to marriage
- Marriage ceremony
- Prenuptial agreement
- Notification of a marriage concluded abroad
- Divorce granted abroad
- Registration of the act applicable to the matrimonial property regime
- Registration of a deed of division of property
- Dissolution of cohabitation
- Removal of marital rights to property
- Extracts issued of the register on the right to officiate at weddings
- Having or adopting a child
- Names
- Moving
- Elections and Right to vote
- Suomi.fi Web Service
- Citizen Certificate and electronic identity
- Guardianship
- Continuing power of attorney
- Appointment of a guardian
- Duties of the guardian
- Guardianship for a minor
- Who can act as a guardian?
- Actions that require the permission of the guardianship authority
- Appointing a substitute guardian
- Termination of guardianship
- Giving up the guardian’s task
- Guardianship authority's means of supervision
- Looking after the interests of an absent person or the future owner of the property
- Restrictions to competency and declaration of incompetence
- Extracts from the Register of Guardianship Affairs
- Certificates from the Population Information System
- Population information in the Population Information System
- Registration of a gift notification
- Services of notary public
- Certification of purchase
- Citizens’ initiative
- Death and estate inventory
- Living abroad
- Moving
- Registration of citizenship
- Divorce granted abroad
- Death abroad
- Registration of a child born abroad
- Registration of a name change performed abroad
- Notification of a marriage concluded abroad
- Registration of the act applicable to the matrimonial property regime
- Legalisation of foreign documents
- Notification of retaining Finnish citizenship
- Submitting foreign documents
- Moving to Finland
- Public Service Info
- Address service
- Forms
- Marriage
- Organisations
- Certificates
- Updating customer registers
- Sampling and analysis services
- Search services of the Population Information System
- Local Register Office Register search services
- Extracts from registers
- Maintaining the Population Information System
- Suomi.fi services
- Services to promote digitalisation
- Digital security services
- Services of notary public
- Certification of purchase
- Right to officiate weddings
- E-services
- About the agency