The Hungarian Parliament adopted a new act on non-judicial civil
proceedings on 12 October 2017. The purpose of this act is to
determine the rules that apply to all non-judicial civil
proceedings before the courts, provided that the law governing the
proceeding in question does not regulate otherwise, and the main
goal is to regulate these proceedings in a more appropriate and
transparent way.
The act in its first chapter states the general rules, which
include among others that the legal representation is not mandatory
except for the procedures before the high courts of appeal and the
Curia. The second chapter of the act details some of the
non-judicial civil procedures that are currently regulated at a
lower level, such as the legal presumption of death, recording of
death, legal presumption of being declared missing, the challenge
of the presumption of paternity and the termination or restoration
of marital community of property during the marriage.
