Calculating alimony is one of the most important tasks in Belarusian family law. Whenever parents live separately — whether after divorce, during marriage, or without ever being married — the child’s right to financial support must be protected. The underlying rules are set out in the Code of the Republic of Belarus on Marriage and […]
Calculating alimony is one of the most important tasks in Belarusian family law. Whenever parents live separately — whether after divorce, during marriage, or without ever being married — the child’s right to financial support must be protected. The underlying rules are set out in the Code of the Republic of Belarus on Marriage and […]
The Hi-Tech Park (HTP) in Belarus continues to be one of the most attractive jurisdictions in Eastern Europe for IT companies, startups and international tech investors. Established by Presidential Decree No. 12 of 22 September 2005, the Park operates under a special legal and tax regime that has been extended until 1 January 2049. The regime […]
A couple meets in their twenties, moves in together, and stays that way for a decade. They buy furniture, renovate the flat, take out a car loan, and raise a child. Friends and relatives call them “husband and wife.” Officially, they are strangers. This scenario is extremely common in Belarus. Long-term cohabitation is a social […]
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A foreign in-house counsel — could be in Frankfurt, could be in Singapore, doesn’t really matter — is on the phone. The contract they signed with a Belarusian supplier eighteen months ago has gone sideways. The other side has stopped paying, or stopped performing, and now there’s a dispute. The counsel went back to the […]
Most foreign creditors who reach out to us about a Belarusian debtor arrive at the same moment. The judgment is in. The lawyers got paid. The board got the email confirming the win. And then — nothing. Three weeks have passed. Five. Two months. The money that was supposed to land somewhere has decided not […]
Foreign general counsel evaluating a dispute with a Belarusian counterparty arrive at the same fork most cross-border litigators recognize: the contract has — or should have — an international arbitration clause, and the question becomes which institution to choose. The familiar shortlist is ICC in Paris, LCIA in London, and the Arbitration Institute of the […]
A foreign engineering company is finalising a multi-year supply contract with a Belarusian industrial buyer. Procurement is happy. Commercial terms are clean. The in-house lawyer in Vienna, who picked up the file on a Friday afternoon, opens what she thinks will be a forty-five-minute job — run the counterparty against a sanctions list, send the […]
Picture a situation most of our foreign clients have been in at least once. You’ve got a Belarusian buyer, a multi-shipment supply contract, and three tranches that went fine. The fourth arrives, the buyer discovers a quality issue (or says they did), withholds payment on that batch, and then — while they’re at it — […]
Most foreign creditors who reach out to us about a Belarusian debtor get to us at roughly the same point. Invoices ninety days past, reminder emails going unanswered, and a finance director asking whether it’s time to escalate. The reflex — natural enough if you came up in a Western legal system — is to […]
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A creditor with a Belarusian debtor has, in most cases, three years. Three years from the moment the right was breached — typically the day after the contractual payment deadline — to bring the claim to court. Article 197 of the Civil Code sets the period. Miss it, and the underlying debt doesn’t disappear, but […]
When parents separate or divorce, one of the most emotionally difficult questions is where the children will live. Belarusian family law approaches this question through a specific legal framework designed to place the child’s interests above the wishes of either parent. This article explains how child residence disputes are resolved under the Marriage and Family […]
You have a foreign arbitral award. ICC. LCIA. SCC. ICAC. A BelCCI award seated outside Belarus. The institution doesn’t matter for this — the award is final and ready to go. The Belarusian debtor has assets in Minsk: bank accounts, real estate, accounts receivable, equipment in a warehouse somewhere. You want to bring the award […]
A dispute with a Belarusian counterparty. Your contract gives you a clean route to arbitration — IAC at BelCCI, three to six months, full procedural rigour, court decision enforceable in over 170 countries under the New York Convention. Tempting. And sometimes the wrong move. Some commercial disputes settle better, faster, and cheaper at the mediation […]
