{"id":269,"date":"2026-05-06T09:15:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/denmark\/?post_type=service&#038;p=269"},"modified":"2026-05-06T09:15:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:15:41","slug":"divorce","status":"publish","type":"service","link":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/denmark\/en\/services\/citizen-services\/vital-records\/divorce\/","title":{"rendered":"Divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Greek Authorities do not recognize divorces issued in Denmark. For their recognition by the Greek Authorities, the following are required:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Submission of the Danish divorce decree to the&nbsp;<strong>Family Affairs Office (Familiestyrelsen)<\/strong>&nbsp;of the Danish Ministry of Justice, which certifies (with an official stamp) that the divorce is final and irrevocable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Authentication of the document with an&nbsp;<strong>Apostille<\/strong>&nbsp;by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Legalisation Department \/ Legalisering).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Translation of the document into Greek by a sworn translator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Submission to our Authority of the original divorce decree and its official translation for certification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, the certified document must be sent, through a lawyer, to the Court of First Instance (\u03a0\u03c1\u03c9\u03c4\u03bf\u03b4\u03b9\u03ba\u03b5\u03af\u03bf) of the municipality in which the interested party is registered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greek Authorities do not recognize divorces issued in Denmark. For their recognition by the Greek Authorities, the following are required: -Submission of the Danish divorce decree to the&nbsp;Family Affairs Office (Familiestyrelsen)&nbsp;of the Danish Ministry of Justice, which certifies (with an official stamp) that the divorce is final and irrevocable. -Authentication of the document with an&nbsp;Apostille&nbsp;by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":264,"menu_order":0,"template":"template-post-with-siblings-sidebar.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"service_icon":""},"service-category":[27],"class_list":["post-269","service","type-service","status-publish","hentry","service-category-copenhagen-services"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/denmark\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/service\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/denmark\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/service"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/denmark\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/service"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/denmark\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/service\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/denmark\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"service-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/denmark\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/service-category?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}