Acts of civil status - legally formed circumstances that individualize a person and which are associated with the emergence, existence and termination of their rights and obligations.
Civil registration Department (hereinafter referred to as the registration body) is a local Executive body that performs state registration of civil status acts.
Registration authorities perform the following actions:
1) make state registration of birth, death, conclusion and dissolution of marriage( matrimony), change of name, patronymic, surname;
2) change, Supplement, including when establishing paternity (motherhood), adoption (adoption), correct, restore and cancel civil status records;
3) issue primary and repeated certificates, certificates, copies of civil status records;
4) ensure the safety of books and forms of certificates of state registration of acts of civil status.
The marriage and family legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan is based on the following principles:
1) voluntary marriage (matrimonial) Union of a man and a woman;
2) equal rights of spouses in the family;
3) the inadmissibility of arbitrary interference by anyone in the family's Affairs;
4) resolving intra-family issues by mutual consent;
5) priority of family upbringing of children, care for their development and well-being;
6) priority protection of the rights and interests of minors, elderly and disabled family members;
7) ensuring the unhindered exercise of their rights by family members and the possibility of judicial protection of these rights;
8) maintain a healthy lifestyle for all family members.