Attachments to Doctrine Jira Issue DDC-890 - https://github.com/doctrine/doctrine2/issues/5415

10878_patch.diff

diff --git a/lib/Doctrine/ORM/UnitOfWork.php b/lib/Doctrine/ORM/UnitOfWork.php
index 5088bb2..f774e9c 100644
--- a/lib/Doctrine/ORM/UnitOfWork.php
+++ b/lib/Doctrine/ORM/UnitOfWork.php
@@ -1284,6 +1284,9 @@ class UnitOfWork implements PropertyChangedListener
 
         $class = $this->em->getClassMetadata(get_class($entity));
         $entityState = $this->getEntityState($entity);
+        
+        $this->cascadeRemove($entity, $visited);        
+        
         switch ($entityState) {
             case self::STATE_NEW:
             case self::STATE_REMOVED:
@@ -1303,8 +1306,6 @@ class UnitOfWork implements PropertyChangedListener
             default:
                 throw new UnexpectedValueException("Unexpected entity state: $entityState.");
         }
-
-        $this->cascadeRemove($entity, $visited);
     }
 
     /**