Family litigation Processing Time

Family litigation such as divorce, custody, and property division, figures for cases ending in a judgment. Below is the average time from filing to judgment at each court level.

  1. 1First instancejudgmentabout 10.2 months(310.8d)
  2. 2Appealjudgmentabout 8.7 months(265.5d)
  3. 3Final appealjudgmentabout 2.9 months(89.4d)

Source Supreme Court of Korea, 2025 Judicial Yearbook (figures for 2024, checked 2026-09-03, 표63). Averages vary a lot by case.