It is one of the most natural assumptions a person can make about their own will: I signed it properly at home, it says who gets what, so that is what will happen — everywhere, to everything I own. For most of an estate, in most places, that assumption holds. Where it quietly breaks is […]
It is one of the most natural assumptions a person can make about their own will: I signed it properly at home, it says who gets what, so that is what will happen — everywhere, to everything I own. For most of an estate, in most places, that assumption holds. Where it quietly breaks is […]
An international marriage spreads a couple’s life across borders almost without their noticing. One spouse is Belarusian and the other is not; they met in one country, married in a second, built a career in a third; there is a flat in Minsk, an apartment abroad, accounts in two currencies and a company somewhere in […]
Most employers assume that the hard part of hiring a foreign national in Belarus is finding the right person, and that the paperwork is a formality HR will sort out later. In practice, it is the other way round. The candidate is usually the easy part; things go wrong with the permit, the contract and […]
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Foreign interest in Belarusian residential property remains steady in 2026. Relatively affordable houses in the suburbs of Minsk and regional centres, continued demand from citizens of Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Middle Eastern countries, and the gradual liberalisation of land legislation that began in 2023 all play a role. The process for a foreign buyer, however, […]
For 2026, personal income tax in Belarus has undergone one of the most significant overhauls in recent years. A three-tier progressive scale has been introduced, the exemption thresholds for gifts and cross-border money transfers have been revised, several reliefs have been recalibrated, and the rules for withholding tax from non-residents have changed. At the end […]
More couples in Belarus now treat a marriage contract as a practical planning tool rather than a sign of mistrust. In many countries such agreements are routine; in Belarus the institution is younger and still raises questions, especially for international couples and families with property or a business. A marriage contract (known in Belarusian law […]
Inheritance issues have always attracted attention — and sometimes controversy. Sooner or later, most people face them in the context of family relationships, financial planning, or legal disputes. The order of inheritance is a structured system that regulates how property passes from a deceased owner to their heirs, and understanding it helps prevent conflicts and […]
Divorce is not only difficult for spouses — it is a turning point for their children. One of the most contentious questions in any divorce is where the child will live. In Belarus, this is decided under the Code of the Republic of Belarus on Marriage and Family, and the guiding principle is a single […]
A foreign party choosing where to resolve disputes with a Belarusian counterparty is not, in the end, asking what the International Arbitration Court at the BelCCI is. That question has a settled answer, and we have written it up separately. The questions that actually decide the outcome are sharper. Will the arbitration clause hold when […]
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Every startup founder eventually wants the same thing: to give the early team a slice of the upside, so the people building the company share in what they build. In most of the world that means stock options. In Belarus, for years, the honest answer to a founder who promised an engineer “two percent when […]
You expected an inheritance to be good news — a flat, a car, some savings — and then you find out there was a loan behind it, or a mortgage, or unpaid bills. The worry that follows is immediate: if I take the inheritance, do the debts come with it, and can the creditors come […]
Losing a relative is difficult enough without a legal clock ticking in the background. Yet in Belarus, that is exactly what happens. From the moment a person dies, their heirs have a limited window to formally claim what is theirs. Miss it, and the property you expected to inherit can pass to other relatives, be […]
Surrogacy is one of the few areas of family life where biology, medicine and intention can point in different directions at the same time. A woman carries and delivers a child, yet she may share none of that child’s genes. A couple contributes the genetic material and the wish to raise the child, yet neither […]
