Foreign employers, universities and registries routinely ask for an apostilled divorce judgment. Here is exactly how it works for this document — and how we take the whole errand off your hands.
Order an apostille →A divorce judgment is a court document, apostilled by the chancellery of the canton whose court issued it. But the judgment alone is rarely enough: foreign registries want proof that it is final, which in Switzerland is a separate certificate of legal force issued by the same court. Without it, the file comes back.
Neither leaves your hands: a notary establishes a certified true copy from your uploaded PDF or photo, and the apostille is affixed to that copy — included in the price. If a destination exceptionally insists on the apostilled original, tell us and we organise it by registered mail.
An apostille authenticates, it does not translate. If the receiving authority also wants a certified translation of your divorce judgment, mention it in the order notes — our partner network delivers both together.
Sending the judgment without the certificate of legal force. It is the single most common reason a divorce file is refused abroad. Request it from the court at the same time as the certified copy — it costs little and adds no delay.