Article 295. Cases on establishment of the facts having legal relevance, considered by court

The court shall establish the facts on which the emergence, change or termination of personal and property rights of citizens or organizations depend.

The court shall consider cases of establishing a fact of the following:

1) kinship relations of persons;

2) person being the dependent;

3) acknowledgement (establishment) of paternity, the fact that the child's was born from this mother, as well as the time of his/her birth;

4) registration of adoption, marriage, dissolution of marriage and death;

5) being in actual marital relations in cases stipulated by law, if the registration of the marriage in the civil registry bodies cannot be made due to death of one of the spouses;

6) ownership of title documents (except for membership cards of public associations, military documents, passports or identification ID cards, certificates issued by civil registry authorities) to a person whose surname, first name or patronymic indicated in the document does not coincide with the surname, the name or patronymic of this person according to the passport or ID card or birth certificate;

7) accident;

8) ownership of the building on the right of private ownership;

9) acceptance of the inheritance and place of opening of the inheritance.

The court may also establish other facts of legal significance, unless otherwise provided by the legislation.

The court shall establish the facts having legal significance only in case of impossibility for the claimant to otherwise obtain the appropriate documents certifying these facts or impossibility to restore the lost documents.