You do not have to agree to a divorce even if your spouse already has a new family and your are not together for a long time.

Refusal to consent to the divorce and the rules of social coexistence:

1. Only durability of spouses disconnection cannot be considered as the fact, that according to the Article. 56 § 3 KRO justifies a refusal to innocent spouse divorse consent to be incompatible with the principles of social coexistence, moreover disconnection durability does not create the presumption, that the innocent spouse which refuses the consent to a divorce, is aimed by the desire to harassment of the guilty spouse.


2. Assessment, that to be contrary to the principles of social coexistence refuse of consent theme must be allowed, if it is the desire to prevent the legalization of informal relationship of the spouse, does not correspond to the rules of interpretation of art. 56 § 3 KRO. In situation where there the guilty spouse is in an informal relationship, refusal to consent to the divorce of the innocent spouse in a rule underlying has a purpose which is to strive to prevent the legalization of this informal relationship. This objective is not itself contrary to the principles of social coexistence, if the result of the desire to maintain the marital relationship, reasoned by he standards compatible of moral, ethical and social standards.

Only specific and substantiated circumstances justifying the desirability of legalizing informal relationship can justify the assessment, that the lack of consent of the innocent spouse to the divorce is contrary to the principles of social coexistence.


Dr. Joanna Dominowska
International divorce lawyer in Warsaw:
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