Living together
Cohabitation or marriage, you have taken the decision to live together... through the good as well as the bad. This section provides information on the formalities you have to complete when you live together in the Brussels-Capital Region, including what you have to do when you cohabitate and the various matrimonial property regimes. As well as what you have to do if you separate.
Marriage and cohabitation, as well as separation and divorce, are federal matters. As a consequence, most of the information in this section refers you to www.belgium.beExternal link.
Cohabitation
So the moment comes when you decide to set up home together. It’s a life-changing decision and the start of a great...
Marriage
Your wedding is a big day that you probably prepare months in advance. But it is also important to realise that...
Separation and divorce
To ensure that everyone’s rights are respected, a number of formalities need to be completed before you can start...
There are more divorces than marriages in the Brussels-Capital Region...
As a result of developments in large agglomerations, family situations and sometimes complicated social relations, there are more divorces than marriages in the Region. There were 5,070 marriages in the Brussels-Capital Region in 2009 (12 % of the total for the whole of Belgium), but 7173 divorces (22 % of the Belgian total).
(Source: Federal Public Service Economy, SMEs, Self-Employed and Energy statistics, July 2010)