{"id":21245,"date":"2026-05-08T20:11:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/echtscheiding-belgie-rechten\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T11:37:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:37:37","slug":"divorce-belgium-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/divorce-belgium-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Divorce in Belgium: what are your rights?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Divorce is a major decision with legal, financial and emotional consequences. Novex Advocaten guides you through the divorce proceedings in Belgium with professional and personal advice.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Types of divorce in Belgium<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Belgium, there are two ways to divorce: divorce by mutual consent (EOT) and divorce on grounds of irretrievable breakdown. In EOT, the parties come to an agreement on all aspects. In the case of irretrievable breakdown, the judge decides.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What settles the divorce?<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a divorce, the following must be settled, among other things: the division of joint assets, maintenance payments, the children's primary residence, residence arrangements and the child benefit (Groeipakket). Novex Advocaten will guide you through all of this.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>0484 99 22 72 | asfour@novexadvocaten.be<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/lawyer-traffic-law\/\">Traffic Lawyer Brussels<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/contact\/\">Contact Novex Advocaten<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Call: <a href=\"tel:+32484992272\">0484 99 22 72<\/a> | <a href=\"mailto:asfour@novexadvocaten.be\">asfour@novexadvocaten.be<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Een echtscheiding is een ingrijpende beslissing met juridische, financi\u00eble en emotionele gevolgen. Novex Advocaten begeleidt u door de echtscheidingsprocedure in Belgi\u00eb met professioneel en persoonlijk advies. Soorten echtscheiding in Belgi\u00eb In Belgi\u00eb zijn er twee manieren om te scheiden: echtscheiding door onderlinge toestemming (EOT) en echtscheiding op grond van onherstelbare ontwrichting. Bij EOT komen partijen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-familierecht"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22689,"href":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21245\/revisions\/22689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}