(Amended, SG No. 28/1982, repealed, SG No. 1/1991).
Article 181
A person who violates an obligation to a spouse, a relative of ascending or descending line,
incapable of taking care for himself, and thereby places him in a position of serious distress, shall
be punished by probation as well as by public censure, provided the act does not constitute a
graver crime.
Article 182
(1) (Amended, SG No. 26/2010) A parent or guardian who leaves a person who is under
parental care or guardianship, without supervision and sufficient care and thereby creates a
danger for his physical, spiritual or moral development, shall be punished by imprisonment for
up to three years, as well as by public censure.
(2) (New, SG No. 28/1982, amended, SG No. 10/1993, SG No. 26/2010, SG No. 16/2019)
A parent or another relative who fails to fulfil or in any way frustrates the application of a court
decision on the exercise of parental rights, or on personal contacts with a child, shall be punished
by probation and a fine from BGN two thousand to five thousand, and in particularly grave cases
- by imprisonment for up to six months and a fine up from BGN five thousand to ten thousand.
(3) (New, SG No. 28/1982) The perpetrator shall not be punished if, after a warning by the
respective state authority, he fulfils the decision or removes the obstacles to its application. This
provision shall not be applied for a second time.
Article 182a
(New, SG No. 26/2004)
(1) (Amended, SG No. 26/2010) The one who, in view of obtaining a pecuniary benefit,
tries to convince a parent, through donation, promise, threat or abuse of office, to abandon his
child or give consent for adoption, shall be punished by imprisonment of up to three years and a
fine of up to BGN 2,000.
(2) The punishment under paragraph 1 shall also be imposed on the one who tries to
convince a young person to give consent for his own adoption, where the law requires consent to
be given.
(3) The one who acts as an intermediary, with a view to obtain an illegal pecuniary benefit,
between a person or a family wishing to adopt a child, and a parent, wishing to abandon a child,
or a woman, who agrees to carry in her womb a child to surrender for adoption, shall be punished
by imprisonment of up to two years and a fine from up to BGN 3,000.
(4) Where the act under paragraph 1 is committed for a second time, the punishment shall
be imprisonment of up to three years and a fine of up to BGN 4,000.
Article 182b
(New, SG No. 75/2006)
(1) A person of the female sex giving consent for the sale of her child in this country or
abroad shall be punished by imprisonment from one to six years and a fine from BGN 5,000 to
BGN 15,000.
(2) The punishment under Paragraph 1 shall also be imposed on a pregnant woman giving
consent to the sale of her child before delivery.