The article is devoted to the problematic aspects of recognition of authenticity by the official authorities of Ukraine of documents issued in territories that, since 2014, have been in the status of temporarily occupied and uncontrolled.The relevance of the topic is based on the fact that about 14 % of the population of Ukraine lives in these territories. Their civil status is changeable and certainly need to be regulated by the competent authorities. Particularly relevant in such conditions is obtaining certificates of birth and death of the Ukrainian sample for the subsequent exercise by citizens of their civil rights.This topic, unfortunately, still hardly considered by scientists both in Ukraine and abroad. Despite this, two articles that examine individual aspects regarding the legal status of a child born outside a healthcare institution are analyzed in the article. According to the current legislation, a child born in uncontrolled territories is equated with a child born outside the maternity hospital.The main goal of the work is to identify problematic issues that arise in the process of legalizing vital records of individuals, as well as finding appropriate ways to solve them. Within the framework of the article, such problems have been identified. Among them: the congestion of the judicial system, due to the lack of proper regulation of the work of the commissions, that should confirm the facts of birth in uncontrolled territories. And if the government of Ukraine tried to organize a special mechanism to legalize a birth certificate issued in the territory of certain regions of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine, then confirmation of a death certificate of this kind is possible only through a court.In the paper are proposed options for solving such problems. In particular, it is proposed the creation of a single special commission to confirm changes in civil status that have occurred in uncontrolled territories, as well as the organization of offsite meetings of this commission at checkpoints of entry and exit to uncontrolled territory with the participation of physicians from international organizations such as the International Committee of the Red Cross. There are also proposals for the integration and cooperation of the work of such single special commissions with the registration authorities of Ukraine. All these ideas are aimed at accelerating the process of confirming the mentioned documents and reducing the load on the judicial system. The article also discusses the possibility of applying the provisions of the Namibian exceptions in Ukrainian realities.