On 28 August 2025 the Commercial Code of Ukraine ceased to have effect under Law No. 4196-IX, and contracts between businesses are now governed by the Civil Code. Contract templates citing Commercial…
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Since 28 August 2025 the Commercial Code has no force, and with it went Article 222 and its compulsory pre-action demand. A demand is now compulsory only where the contract or a…
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A lawyer is compulsory in criminal proceedings for especially grave offences, for minors and for people who do not speak the language of the proceedings (Art. 52 of the Criminal Procedure Code),…
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Four instruments allow the lawful use of someone else’s land: a lease, emphyteusis for agricultural purposes, superficies for building, and an easement for limited access. Emphyteusis and superficies over state or municipal…
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Land can be privatised free of charge once for each of six categories of use, and Article 121 of the Land Code sets the sizes: up to 2 ha for a private…
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The free privatisation of state and municipal land is suspended for the duration of martial law by subparagraph 5 of paragraph 27 of section X of the Land Code. The exceptions remain:…
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Restructuring does not reduce the debt by itself; it changes the schedule and the term for repaying it. For internally displaced people and residents of areas of hostilities the Law “On Consumer…
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Martial law does not by itself excuse the rent. Part 6 of Article 762 of the Civil Code relieves a tenant only for the time the property genuinely could not be used…
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Objections to an audit report go in within 10 working days, and so does a complaint to the State Tax Service against a tax assessment notice. In July 2025, in case No.…
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In 2026 the minimum maintenance for one child is 1,408.50 UAH up to the age of six and 1,756 UAH from six to eighteen: half the subsistence minimum, under part 2 of…
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