How to pay the state fee for registering a marriage?

Starting a family is always a joyful event. However, sad as it may be, according to statistics, today every second marriage in Russia breaks up. In view of this, the legal category of “divorce” has entered the everyday life of Russian citizens, which, in turn, inevitably entails not only emotional turmoil for the “future ex” spouses, but also some bureaucratic difficulties, which include the issue of paying the state fee for divorce marriage. So that this issue no longer bothers visitors to our site, we have summarized our knowledge on this topic in this material.

First of all, the procedure for paying the state fee depends on who will make the decision on divorce - the registrar at the registry office or the court.

Divorce in the registry office

Divorce in the registry office is the least problematic and cheapest procedure possible. This method is possible only under a combination of two circumstances: both partners agree to end the marriage and there are no joint minor children in the family.

Currently, the state fee for divorce in the registry office is 650 rubles.

The law provides for cases when a divorce is registered in the registry office, and the fee is paid by only one spouse in the amount of 350 rubles.

The state fee is a fee for the registrar making an entry in the Civil Registry Office about the divorce and issuing a certificate for each of the former partners. This procedure will not require any additional costs.

Advice: the fee is paid by each spouse separately.

In order to avoid erroneous transfer of funds, before transferring the fee, you must check the details for the transfer. The receipt must indicate the recipient (the registry office in which the spouses are divorcing) and the name of the payment, amount, full name of the payer and other mandatory data.

Legal advice for Moscow residents: The necessary information about the details of the Moscow Civil Registry Office can be found on the mos.ru portal

Payment can be made at a bank branch, through a personal account, terminal, as well as through the government services portal. When submitting an application and paying the state fee through government service portals and integrated with the Unified Identification and Logistics System, the fee is calculated with a coefficient of 0.7 (that is, with a “discount” of 30%).

State duty is paid before:

submitting applications and (or) documents for state registration of acts of civil status or performing legally significant actions or before submitting the relevant documents, issuing documents (their duplicates), affixing an apostille.

Full name, address of the payer : the state fee is paid by the person applying for state registration of a civil status act or performing a legally significant action on his own behalf. Therefore, when filling out the receipt, we ask you to pay special attention to indicating the full last name, first name, patronymic and residential address in exact accordance with the identity document of the recipient of the service .

Please check that the received document confirming the fact of payment of the state duty is filled out correctly at the time of receipt.

Attention ! Each civil registry office department or municipality has its own OKTMO code.

To generate a receipt, select the civil registry office department to which you will apply to receive public services.

If you plan to contact a local government body authorized to carry out state registration of civil status acts, please fill out the receipt form and fill out the OKTMO details of the relevant municipality from the list .

Please note that the payer has the right to demand from employees of financial and credit organizations where state fees are paid to indicate the full last name, first name and patronymic of the payer in order to avoid refusals in state registration of a civil status act or the commission of a legally significant action.

To select a receipt with the correct OKTMO code, indicate the registry office department:

Divorce in court

Lawyer's advice: Family law establishes that divorce is possible only with the consent of the spouse if at the time of filing the application the woman is pregnant or less than one calendar year has passed since the birth of the child.

The divorce state fee is 650 rubles. A receipt for its payment or a check order must be submitted to the court as an attachment to the statement of claim. Thus, initially the amount of the fee is paid by the plaintiff for both spouses (1,300 rubles in total). In the statement of claim, the applicant for divorce may demand the recovery of half of the specified amount from the defendant (650 rubles).

If the divorce is carried out in court, as part of the statement of claim, in addition to the demand for divorce, property claims may be made.

Their presence directly affects the amount of the duty, which is paid at a time but for each claim separately.

Taking into account the above, and the fact that often in a divorce the parties are forced to seek legal services, the legal process can become quite expensive.

Legal advice: Do not forget that the Supreme Court, courts of general jurisdiction and magistrates have the right to exempt a person from paying the fee, or reduce its amount, or defer payment. The court makes this decision at the request of the party, taking into account its financial situation.

To reduce the costs of the process and independently resolve all property issues, we recommend concluding an agreement on the division of property. If a dispute does occur, we advise you to separate the demands for divorce from the division of property in order to avoid delays in the entry into force of the decision on divorce due to an appeal of the judicial act regarding property claims.

When calculating the time required to fully complete the divorce procedure, it is necessary to take into account that after the trial, the spouses need to contact the registry office in order to obtain a certificate. Payment must be made by each spouse separately.

Lawyer's advice: If during a divorce a person also changes his first name, last name and (or) patronymic, then a separate fee is paid for making changes to the Civil Registry Office and issuing a certificate. Also, payment will be required to change each of the additional documents - for example, internal and foreign passports, driver's license, birth certificates of children.

State fees for divorce through court

The state fee for divorce through the court is calculated taking into account a much larger number of nuances that affect how much its amount will increase. Litigation in itself is not an easy matter, especially if it is necessary to divide property or determine with whom a child will live after the divorce.

It will be possible to say more precisely how much the state fee for divorce costs if all the factors are known. For example, if the spouses have no property claims, you can pay only 650 rubles. When the decision is ready, you need to go to the registry office with it and pay another 650 rubles there (for each spouse). So even the simplest case of divorce will cost the former couple 1,950 rubles in 2022.

The state fee for divorce will be much higher if the court needs to deal with the issue of division of property, real estate and other assets. The minimum that spouses will have to pay in this case is 400 rubles. And this is provided that the price of the common property is only 20 thousand rubles or less. If the value of the property is below 100 thousand, the state duty is already 800 rubles. But there is also a non-fixed part - 3% of the price of expensive property.

The state fee for divorce through the magistrate’s court is still calculated based on the price of the issue. When property worth from 100 to 200 thousand is divided, the state duty to the magistrate court will be 3,200 rubles in the fixed part and 2% of the cost . If the section concerns property worth from 200 thousand to a million rubles, the state duty increases to 5,200 rubles, and the state receives 1% of the value of the assets. When property worth 1 million or more is divided, the state will receive 13,200 rubles, and will also have to pay half a percent of the amount.

Validity period of the payment document

If you have a document confirming payment of the duty, you can use it for 1 year. Some lawyers believe that the validity of the paid fee is valid for 3 years. It is important to remember that the details of the judicial authority or the amount of the state duty may change during this time.

In recent years, there has been a lot of discussion about increasing the fees for divorce cases in order to create some kind of financial incentive to save families. However, none of the proposed radical ideas were implemented, and the increase in size that occurred was insignificant.

Among the various categories of cases that are handled, there is also a large array of divorce proceedings.

State fee for marriage registration

According to Art. 333.26 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation, the state duty is 350 rubles. Payment must be made before submitting the application, otherwise the registry office will refuse registration.

Where can I get the details?

You can receive a receipt for payment at the registry office or generate it through the website of a government agency if the appropriate service is available. Or use the unified state register: Generate a payment document to pay for marriage registration

Who pays the state fee?

The legislation does not oblige a specific party to pay a state fee when applying to the registry office. This issue should be resolved by future spouses independently.

Payment methods for state fees

When you personally apply for a receipt at the registry office, you can make payment in several ways:

• Bank branch. Choose the nearest bank, come with a receipt and money, make a payment and receive a check. It must be stored - it is provided along with other documents;
• Online in your personal bank account. Pay the state fee online through your personal account or application using a plastic card. Most financial institutions allow you to make government payments even from credit cards without a fee;
• ATM or terminal. Self-service devices of almost all banks are suitable for transferring state fees. Just insert the card, enter the details from the receipt, indicate the amount and receive a check. Sberbank terminals are 100% suitable for this;
• Online from an electronic wallet. If you have Yandex Money, Qiwi or another electronic payment instrument, make a payment. An additional fee may apply, but this depends on the terms and conditions of the issuer.

When paying online by any method, immediately print out the receipt. If this is not done, it will be difficult to find it in the payment history if transactions are carried out quite often.

The second option is payment through the registry office service. You can generate a receipt and pay it online, or print it and go to the bank to pay.

Receipt validity period

As a standard, receipts for payment of state fees are valid for 3 years, but this does not apply to marriage registration. A specific date is chosen for the wedding, and if citizens do not show up on the appointed day without first notifying the registry office about the postponement of the wedding, it will not be possible to return the money (Article 333.40 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation).

If the newlyweds postpone the wedding date by notifying the registry office, the fee continues to apply and does not need to be paid again.

Fill out the form and pay the receipt

In order for the payment of the state fee for divorce to be successful, you need to have information about where and how much to pay. It can be requested at the magistrates' court or at the registry office (depending on where the procedure is formalized) . The maximum possible payment amount may not be that much - only up to 60 thousand rubles, depending on how much the item in the section costs. But such an amount is only possible if divorced spouses divide expensive property. You will also incur significant costs if you hire a lawyer to file a claim.

Any authority will require a receipt before divorcing spouses. It indicates that the payment of the state fee for divorce was made successfully. Therefore, the receipt must be attached to the list of main documents.

It is advisable to obtain the details of the state fee for divorce in the court where you are filing the documents. If these details are taken, you can go to any convenient bank and make a payment. Sometimes money can even be transferred through a terminal.

It is important that the receipt for 2022 contains information about who the payer is (his SNILS, passport details), who receives the duty and bank details. You should also check whether it is indicated how much to pay, the purpose of the payment and whether the date for its payment has been set. To make sure you don't miss anything, use the following example.

You can get legal assistance regarding state fees for divorce on our website.