Tyumen Woman Proves Son's Marriage Was Fake After His Death in War

A woman from Tyumen was able to prove in court that her mobilized son«s marriage was fictitious. The proceedings lasted more than a year and reached the cassation level. In the end, the court in Khanty-Mansiysk recognized that there were no actual family relations between the spouses.

The story began in the fall of 2022 — we covered it in detail in a previous article. Ivan was mobilized and sent to a training ground, where marriages were being registered en masse at the time — right in the field conditions. A month before the call-up, the young man met Anna, and soon the couple officially registered their relationship.

After Ivan left for service, according to his mother Svetlana Petrovna, the spouses stopped living as a family. Anna began dating another man and even planned to marry him. Ivan himself also started a relationship with another girl, but did not have time to get divorced. In August 2024, Ivan died in the war zone.

After her son«s death, his mother went to court. The woman insisted that the marriage was fictitious, the spouses did not run a joint household, did not live together, and did not support each other. The recognition of the marriage as invalid directly determined who would receive the payments due to the family of the deceased serviceman. However, the courts in Yugra initially denied the claim. They did not recognize the marriage as fictitious.

Then the woman appealed to the Seventh Cassation Court in Chelyabinsk. There, the previous decisions were overturned, and it was noted that the lower courts had approached the case formally and did not investigate key circumstances.

The cassation ruling stated that the courts should have checked the entire set of signs of family relations: cohabitation, running a joint household, material support, mutual care, the presence of common interests and property. These circumstances were not established, the parties were not even offered to discuss them, which is why the courts« conclusions could not be considered lawful and justified.

The case was sent for a new review to the appellate instance of the court of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (KhMAO). On 20 January, the court in Khanty-Mansiysk reconsidered the case and sided with the mother of the deceased. Ivan«s marriage was recognized as fictitious — the court concluded that there were no actual family relations between the spouses.

Now the woman has the opportunity to seek the redistribution of payments due to the family of the deceased mobilized serviceman.

This is not the first such story. Earlier we wrote about other similar cases:

• Divorce? A Tyumen family fights for death benefits with the soldier«s wife — he married three days before his death

• They knew each other for two days and got married. The mother of a Tyumen man killed in the war is suing her daughter-in-law over death benefits

• »Two-week wife«. The mother of a Tyumen man killed in the war wants to take his medals from the 20-year-old widow