A divorce suit was filed today by Olga Kefalogianni against Minos Matsas.

According to reports, Mrs Kefalogianni took this decision after serious consideration and after all options for resolving the disputes were exhausted. She invokes reasons relating exclusively to the behaviour and attitude of Minos Matsas.

Sources close to the Tourism Minister stress that her priority remains the preservation of her private life, as well as the protection of her family and her twin children, aged three, from indiscriminate publicity.

Recall that the two sides have accused each other of physical abuse, as well as having a third party in their marriage.

The two opposing parties were in the courts of the former Evelides last October for the issues of restraining orders and custody of their two children. The judge who heard the motions for a temporary injunction that “exchanged” the estranged Kefalogiannis-Matsas regarding the issue of regulating the temporary custody of their two minor children, seems to have chosen the middle way.

As legal circles commented, the judge, in a weighted decision, allowed Olga Kefalogianni to remain together with her two minor children at the former marital residence in Psychiko and to have exclusive custody of them as far as their place of residence is concerned.

Simply put, that is, at this stage the Minister of Tourism managed to keep her children at home with her and she had exclusive use of the house. Instead, their father is obliged to leave the former family home in Psychiko within three days, as his estranged wife requested.

On a second reading of the decision issued on October 22, Minos Matsas is not the big “loser” in the case. This is because the composer has managed to secure regular communication with his children three times a week and every second weekend, as well as co-determination about the major issue of their upbringing. That is, he has been given the right at this stage to have a say in matters concerning the children’s schools, their health, etc. Something that he had allegedly advocated in his application, citing the law on co-parenting and the interests of his children, in whose lives, as he allegedly said in the closed trial, he should also have a say.

The court granted this request, as it ruled that the two parents would decide jointly on matters of child-rearing.

It is worth noting here that in her application for a temporary injunction, Mrs. Kefalogiannis was reportedly seeking exclusive custody of the children, which she did not completely win in the end, since, according to the decision, her estranged husband will also have a say in child-rearing issues. In addition, according to the judgment, Minos Matsas will be able to see his children three times a week (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 5 to 8 p.m.) and every other weekend, so that the minor children will be able to stay with him.

He will also have personal contact with his children on certain holidays and summer vacation days, meaning he will be able to have them with him on specific days set by the court.

Conversely, for the periods when he will not see the children, i.e., he will not have face-to-face contact with them, he will be able to chat with them either by phone or online for half an hour each day at a time to be mutually agreed upon with his estranged wife.

The same applies to Olga Kefalogiannis when the composer exercises his right of personal communication with the children. That is, the former minister will be able to chat with her children when they are with Minos Matsas either by phone or online for half an hour every day at a time that she has agreed with the composer.

On the contrary, the tourism minister has come out of the decision as a complete winner as far as the request for her stay at the family home in Psychiko is concerned. The judge granted that part of her request in which she asked the composer to leave the former family home. Thus, the judgment rejected Minos Matsa’s contrary request for the Minister for Tourism to move from the family home in Psychiko to her father’s house. According to the decision, the Minister of Tourism and her two children will remain exclusively in the former marital home.

All of this, of course, is of a temporary nature and is in effect until the injunction applications filed by the former couple on the issue of custody of their children are heard. The hearing date for the injunction is reportedly set for February 2025.