Is a UK divorce automatically recognised in Bulgaria?
Not automatically in every case. Since Brexit, Bulgaria applies its own recognition rules to UK judgments. Ask the registrar or a Bulgarian lawyer what your case needs.
Your UK final order or decree absolute translated into Bulgarian and signed by a sworn translator, so a Bulgarian office can update your civil status.
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Certified translation with Statement of Accuracy · Acceptance guaranteed — if any authority queries the format, we correct and reissue free.
Instant price
Certified translation with Statement of Accuracy · Acceptance guaranteed — if any authority queries the format, we correct and reissue free.
A sworn divorce certificate translation into Bulgarian is a Bulgarian-language version of your UK final order, decree absolute or Scottish extract decree, signed by a sworn translator (заклет преводач). Bulgarian offices need it before they will treat a UK divorce as ended: to update a Bulgarian citizen's civil status, to let you remarry in Bulgaria, or to settle property.
We translate the order and any apostille at £40.00 per page, delivered within 2 working days. If you are remarrying, you may also need your marriage certificate translated.
Bulgaria
Yes, if a Bulgarian office has to act on it. Updating civil status, remarrying in Bulgaria or dividing property there generally needs the UK divorce document, apostilled, with a sworn translation into Bulgarian.
Since Brexit, a UK divorce is a judgment from outside the EU, and Bulgaria applies its own rules on recognising it. Depending on the case, the civil registrar may enter it directly or the matter may need recognition through a Bulgarian court. That's a legal question for the office or a Bulgarian lawyer, not something a translation settles. Ask them which documents they need: sometimes it's just the final order, sometimes the full judgment too.
Final orders, decrees absolute, decrees nisi and conditional orders, Scottish extract decrees, dissolution orders for civil partnerships, and full court judgments or financial orders.
Most offices only need the document that ends the marriage. Property and maintenance matters usually need the financial order as well.
£40.00 per page for a digital PDF, charged in pounds sterling, delivered within 2 working days. A final order or decree absolute is usually one page; a full judgment can run longer.
Upload every page you've been asked for on the online quote form and the total is shown before you pay. Every document includes 2 free revisions. The FCDO apostilles UK court documents, and the apostille is translated along with the order; see our apostille translation page. Want it on paper too? Tick the signed paper copy at checkout: the translator prints it, signs it in ink and posts it by Royal Mail the next working day after your PDF, for £3.00 to a UK address or £8.00 anywhere else (one fee per order). Delivery times are Royal Mail's, not guaranteed.
Not automatically in every case. Since Brexit, Bulgaria applies its own recognition rules to UK judgments. Ask the registrar or a Bulgarian lawyer what your case needs.
Usually, yes. Get it apostilled by the FCDO first, then send us the order with the apostille attached.
Yes. Any court document can be translated, priced per page.
A sworn translator (заклет преводач), with a certificate of accuracy in Bulgarian.
Up to 2 working days. There is no rush option for sworn Bulgarian translations.
Yes. Your documents are only seen by the people working on your order, and we can delete the files once it is complete.
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