Recovery of Civil Status Records

The article deals with topical issues of restoration of civil status records in a special production of civil proceedings. Restoration of act records is defined as the reproduction in the Unified State Registry of Civil Registry Offices by officials of the Civil Registry Office of pre-existing act records, but subsequently lost on the basis of the legal facts established in the court decision of the earlier state registration of acts of civil status. Attention is drawn to the absence in the special proceedings of the civil process of direct consolidation of the procedure for establishing the fact of state registration of establishing paternity and changing the name. In clause 3 of part 2 of Article 264 of the Code of Civil Procedure of the Russian Federation, the legislator fixes only five of the seven possible acts of civil status that are subject to restoration in court, which is not an obstacle for the applicant to restore them, since the list of establishment by the court of facts of legal significance is not exhaustive.