PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA NATIONAL ASSEMBLY FAMILY CODE
DIVORCE THROUGH BREAKDOWN OF THE MARRIAGE
Article 99
(1) Each of the spouses is entitled to seek a divorce where the marriage has deeply and irrevocably been broken down.
(2) Together with the decision allowing the divorce the court pronounces ex officio as to the guilt for the breakdown of the marriage unless it is caused by objective reasons which cannot be ascribed as guilt to any one of the spouses.
(3) The court does not pronounce itself as to the guilt for the breakdown of the marriage where the spouses request this and submit to the court their agreement regarding the discharge of parental rights, the personal relations and the support of the children, and also about their property relations, the use of the matrimonial home, the alimony between them and the family name.
(4) A divorce is not allowed where the breakdown of the marriage is caused by the misbehaviour of the plaintiff only, and the other spouse insists on the preservation of the marriage, unless important considerations call for the divorce action to be recovered.
ALIMONY TO A FORMER SPOUSE
Article 83
(1) Only the spouse who has not been guilty for the divorce has a right to alimony.
(2) Alimony is due up to three years maximum from the date of the dissolution of the marriage, unless the parties have agreed upon a longer term. The court may extend these terms where the former spouse, recipient of the alimony is in financial troubles exceptionally unconditioned and the other spouse is able to furnish it without particular inconvenience.
(3) The right to alimony of the former spouse discontinues when he or she contracts another marriage