DEATH CERTIFICATE in the occupied territories of Crimea

In recent years, cases of treatment in our office nationals in the temporarily occupied territory (the Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Alchevsk, Stakhanov and others.), On the establishment of the courts of the legal facts of death and subsequently obtain death certificates.

In accordance with Regulation 2 of Part 1 of Article 17 of the Law of Ukraine "On state registration of civil status" state registration of death is made by the state registration of civil status on the basis of - the court's decision on the establishment of the fact of death of a person at a certain time or to declare him dead.

If the documents of the death of a person missing, the state registration of death is based on the court's decision to establish the fact of death.

According to para. 8 Part 1 of Art. 256 Code of Civil Procedure of Ukraine court hears cases of the evidence of the death of a person at a certain time in case of failure of registration by the state registration of civil status of the fact of death. Documents issued in the occupied territories are not recognized in Ukraine as the official. They are not desired for their owners and void.

Thus, the applicant appealed to the Pechersk District Court of Kiev with a statement on the establishment of the fact of death, which asked the court to establish the fact of the death of a relative who died in the city of Sevastopol Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

Court investigated following evidence: a copy of the letter directly OGRAGS Caves; copy of birth certificate; a copy of the death certificate; A copy of the burial; a copy of the death certificate; receipt; Contract-order to organize and conduct the burial; a copy of the sales receipt.