Last reviewed: 27 September 2026
The sourcing standard
Every material legal statement on this site — a deadline, a procedural step, a definition, a requirement — is expected to trace back to a primary law or an official institution, with an effective date, rather than to another website's summary of the law. A competitor's page, however well it ranks in search results, is never treated as authority for what a Bulgarian deadline or procedure actually is. This standard, and how it is applied when content is written or revised, is described further in the Editorial Policy.
Categories of primary legal sources used on this site
Depending on the subject of a given page, the underlying legal content on this site draws on the following categories of Bulgarian and EU primary sources:
- Professional regulation: the Bulgarian Bar Act and the Code of Ethics for Attorneys.
- Criminal procedure: the Criminal Procedure Code.
- Business and commercial matters: the Commerce Act, the Commercial Register Act, the Obligations and Contracts Act, Regulation (EC) (Rome I), and eIDAS.
- Litigation and debt recovery: the Civil Procedure Code, the Commerce Act, Regulation (EU) 1215/2012, Regulation (EC) 1896/2006, and Regulation (EC) 861/2007.
- Property matters: Article 22 of the Constitution of Bulgaria, the Ownership Act, the Cadastre and Property Register Act, the Obligations and Contracts Act, the Local Taxes and Fees Act, and the Registry Agency / Cadastre and Property Register information system (KAIS).
- Tax matters: the Tax and Social Insurance Procedure Code, the VAT Act, the Administrative Procedure Code, and the National Revenue Agency.
- Immigration matters: the Foreigners in the Republic of Bulgaria Act and its Implementing Regulations, the Act on Entry and Residence of EU Citizens, the Administrative Procedure Code, and the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- Citizenship matters: the Bulgarian Citizenship Act and its Implementing Regulations, the Ministry of Justice Citizenship Directorate, and the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- Family matters: the Family Code, the Civil Procedure Code, Regulation (EU) 2019/1111, the Private International Law Code, and the European e-Justice Portal.
- Inheritance matters: the Inheritance Act, Regulation (EU) 650/2012, the European e-Justice Portal's Bulgaria succession pages, the Civil Procedure Code, and the Local Taxes and Fees Act.
- Criminal matters: the Criminal Procedure Code, the Penal Code, EU Directive 2013/48/EU, and relevant consular information.
Where a page states a legal rule, it is checked against the relevant source category above for its subject, with an effective date recorded internally and a review date shown on the page itself.
Verifying Adriana's own credentials
The professional details published about Adriana Melnikliyska on this site — her registration and current status — can be checked independently against the same official sources used to verify them:
Readers are encouraged to use these links to verify her registration and status directly, rather than relying solely on this website's own description of it.
Keeping this current
Primary sources change, and this site's content is reviewed against them when a material legal change is identified — see the Editorial Policy for how that review process works. If you believe a specific page no longer matches its underlying source, please use the Corrections page to report it.