There are three main causes for devours in Armenian reality: material problems, atocia and absence of a son in the family. After devours, a number of problems related to the property right emerge, and very often just the women’s property rights are violated.
Today, at the seminar on “Women’s Rights” organized for the advocates, lawyers and human rights activists in Gyumri City of Shirak Marz, advocate Syuzanna Soghomonyan, the project expert spoke about the issues of the women’s property rights in the framework of marriage, devours and inheritance matters.
“Influencing the Women’s Rights Agenda” project is implemented by the Armenian Young Lawyers Association NGO with financial support of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in the Republic of Armenia. In his welcome speech, Mr. Artak Saribekyan, the AYLA Executive Director said that within the framework of the project the organization provides free legal advice on the women’s rights to citizens, in Yerevan and in 4 provinces of the RA, since 1 May, 2015.
The participants of the discussion raised the issue referring the fact that very often the property right problems arise when the actual marriage is not registered. In this case, it becomes almost impossible to prove that the woman may have an ownership right of the estate. “If there is no marriage registration, the law cannot protect the individual’s rights,” said Vanuhi Gabrielyan, a lawyer that participated in the discussion and added that in such cases achievement of results implied rather time-consuming and expensive process.
Syuzanna Soghomonyan also noted that in some cases, the property rights of the woman are violated when the husband alienated the property acquired during the marriage without the wife’s knowledge. She gave an example from her practice, when the husband sold the flat signing a document at the notary office stating that the property was not acquired during the marriage and third persons do not have property rights on it.
According to the speaker, in this case there is also a legal problem, because the notary public is obliged to check the authenticity of the facts prior to notarizing the deal.
Miss Soghomonyan also noted that there are cases when the husband registered the joint property acquired during the marriage not to his wife’s name, but the name of a third party. Specifically, she met such case in her practice, when the apartment was acquired during the marriage and was registered in the name of the husband’s parents.
The training is going on. The problems referring to women’s employment and reproductive rights are being discussed.
