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Table of Spouses’ Rights in Family Disputes and Mediation

The table below summarizes the rights of spouses in cases of family disputes. It should not be considered as comprehensive legal advice.

Description of Right	After the separation		After the divorce		When is the right lost?		Is mediation allowed?
Right to Divorce	YES		_		_		NO
Right to Alimony of Spouse	YES		NO		After the divorce		YES
Right to Post-Marital Support	NO		YES		Only applicable for a specific period of time		YES
Rights to Property acquired during the marriage	YES		YES		3 years after the divorce was issued		YES
Right to Exclusive Use of the Property	YES		NO		Terminates with the issuance of a divorce		YES
Right to Personal Items	YES		NO		At a reasonable time from the separation		YES
Right to Home Appliances	YES		NO		At a reasonable time from the separation		YES
Right to Child Support	YES	YES		Until children become adults		YES
Right to Child Support (over the age of 18)	YES	YES		Until the end of military service or the end of university studies		NO
Right to Stop-List	YES	YES		Until the child becomes an adult		NO
Right to Parental Responsibility (Legal and Physical Custody)	YES	YES		Until the child becomes an adult		NO (assignment or removal cannot be mediated)
Right to Communication	YES	YES		Until the child becomes an adult		YES

The above information does not constitute legal advice.

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Evripides is a lawyer and a mediator. He is the founder of the Cyprus Consumer Center for ADR. He teaches law at the European University of Cyprus and provides mediation training at the Cyprus Consumer Center for ADR. After completing the LLB Law degree at Queen Mary University in London in 2009, he then completed a post-graduate diploma in Company Law LLM, at University College London. He graduated with Distinction. In 2016, Evripides published the book «The Law on the Sale of Goods and Consumer Protection in Cyprus», which was published by Nomiki Vivliothiki. He has also published several legal articles in journals in Cyprus and abroad and he has been quoted in legal textbooks such as Lee Roach, Card & James Business Law (2016, Oxford University Press), Stefan H.C. Lo, In Search of Corporate Accountability: Liabilities of Corporate Participants, (2015, Cambridge Scholars Publishing) andThomas B. Courtney and Daibhi O’ Leary, The Law of Companies (2016, Bloomsbury Publishing).

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Table of Spouses’ Rights in Family Disputes and Mediation

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