The Family Code of Russia (Russian: Семейный кодекс Российской Федерации, abbreviated as СК РФ) is the prime source of family law in the Russian Federation. It was passed by the State Duma on 8 December 1995, signed by President Boris Yeltsin on 29 December 1995, and came into force on 1 March 1996. It has been amended a number of times since then, most recently in June 2008^[1].

[edit] Structure of the Family Code

• Section I: General provisions
• Section II: Marriage and divorce
• Section III: The rights and duties of spouses
• Section IV: The rights and duties of parents and children
• Section V: Alimony duties of family members
• Section VI: Ways of raising children who are not under parental care
• Section VII: Application of family law to family relationships that include foreign citizens and stateless persons
• Section VIII: Concluding remarks

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• (Russian) Current text of the Family Code of Russia

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