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Registration of the act applicable to the matrimonial property regime
An agreement by which the spouses opt to have a foreign country’s law to apply to their matrimonial property regime must be registered in the Digital and Population Data Services Agency.
Matrimonial property regime is usually subject to the law of the country in which both spouses established a place of residence after entering marriage.
In certain cases, the law applicable to the matrimonial property regime can be set by an agreement to the law of the country in which one or both of the spouses have a place of residence or the citizen of which a spouse is at the time the agreement is made.
If the spouses have a place of residence in Finland, the provisions of the Marriage Act on the form of a prenuptial agreement shall be followed.
An agreement by which the spouses have set the law of a foreign state (other than Finland) to apply to the matrimonial property regime cannot be invoked against the creditors of a spouse if the spouse has a place of residence or domicile in Finland, unless the agreement has been submitted to the Digital and Population Data Services Agency for registration.
The questions associated with the choice of law to be applied to the matrimonial property regime are often fairly complex, which is why it is recommended to seek help from a lawyer who is familiar with international law.
Do the following
- Fill in the application to register an agreement on the law to apply to a matrimonial property regime (form in Finnish)
Application to register an agreement
- Submit the application to the Digital and Population Data Services Agency along with the original agreement on the law to apply to a matrimonial property regime
- The documents should preferably be submitted by post. You can't submit the agreement for registration by e-mail, as the Digital and Population Data Services Agency needs the original agreement for registration.
Checklist
- An agreement on the law to apply to a matrimonial property regime must be made in writing and its original copy must be submitted to the Digital and Population Data Services Agency for registration. The original document will be returned to you after the registration.
- We recommend that you contact a lawyer to find out the requirements concerning the form of the agreement.
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- 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
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