After Your Divorce
The divorce decree is not the end of the matter. Life keeps changing after court — jobs, relocations, schools, new partners — and what was signed has to live alongside that reality. We help you understand your new legal position and deal with the everyday problems that follow the judgment, with the added layer that an international life brings.
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The most common problems after the judgment
Almost every post-divorce conflict falls into one of three groups: what is being breached (maintenance that is not paid, contact that is not respected), what has changed (income, cities, the children’s needs) and what must be decided jointly (school, medical treatment, where the children live). Each has its own legal route, and choosing the right one is half the result.
If the judgment is not being complied with
Having an agreement or a judgment does not mean the rules are always followed. Where the other parent stops paying maintenance or ignores the contact schedule, the answer is enforcement of the court order, brought before the same court that issued it — including where the other parent now lives abroad.
If your situation is no longer the one in the judgment
Life changes, and the agreement you once signed may no longer reflect your needs or your children’s. Where income, residence or the children’s needs have changed in a significant and lasting way, the arrangements can be adapted through a modification of measures. Timing matters: maintenance remains fully payable until a court changes it.
When you cannot agree on decisions about your children
Parental responsibility remains shared after divorce, and some decisions require both parents’ consent: choosing or changing school, significant medical treatment, where the children live. When agreement is impossible, it is not the quicker parent who decides.
Spanish law provides a specific procedure for these situations — the resolution of disputes in the exercise of parental authority — in which the court hears both parents and authorises one of them to take that particular decision. It does not remove anyone’s parental responsibility: it unblocks a decision that cannot wait.