A resident of Belarus married for the sake of deferment from the army – the fate of the marriage was decided in court

In Belarus, a potential conscript married a woman with a disability to receive a reprieve from military service. However, the marriage was declared invalid, the correspondent of the Minsk-Novosti agency reports.

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Details of the story told in the Prosecutor’s office of Vitebsk region. By law, such a delay is due to those whose wives have a disability of the first or second group. This was taken advantage of by a 20-year-old potential conscript. He registered a relationship with a 41-year-old citizen in the registry office. The fact that the union of two hearts is not a family at all, but a target project was revealed during the inspection.

The newlyweds did not have a common household. They did not have a family budget: each spouse managed their own finances. Husband and wife lived together for only one and a half of more than 18 months in marriage. Most of this period, the couple spent separately: the young man, who at that time did not work or study, huddled with his parents, and his wife shared a home with another person in another place.

When it became clear that the marriage is fictitious, and violates the interests of the state, the prosecutor of the Polotsk district prepared a statement of claim to the court. There they agreed with the arguments provided and recognized the registration of the union as invalid. The decision has not yet come into force - the parties can challenge it. The husband and wife are also required to pay 67.5 BYN.