The author explains family law rules concerning the exercise of parental responsibility (parental care) after divorce in Croatia. The new family legislation emphasizes the importance of encouraging ...parents to reach agreements and reduce manipulations of their children after divorce. Parents may divorce in simplified, non-contentious proceedings, having previously reached an agreement on their divorce and on how they will exercise parental care. If there is no agreement on the exercise of parental care, they divorce in civil contentious proceedings. In that case, a parent that does not live with the child is not entitled to exercise joint parental responsibility. Novum is that a child is considered a party in all court proceedings where the court decides on his or her rights. The child is represented by a special guardian appointed by a social welfare office that is an employee of the Center for Special Guardianship. The representation system provokes new challenges due to its implementation weakness.
The author carefully analyses legal situations where parents may represent their child jointly, one of them solely, or combined: jointly regarding the essential personal rights of the child, or one of them solely with regard to any other matters. Serious questions are raised because of significant limitations on the right to parental care of the parent who does not live with the child (as a part of the content of their human right to respect for family life). According to the author’s opinion, these restrictions are not justified, especially concerning the goal to protect the child’s best interests in post-divorce families.
Legal development of non-marital union in Croatia went through different phases – from modest family law effects (property rights and the right to maintenance) in late seventies of the twentieth ...century to equating non-marital union with marriage nowadays, except the establishment of fatherhood and gaining common family name.
In the Family Act (2015) non-marital union refers to a life union between an unmarried woman and an unmarried man that has lasted for at least three years or for a shorter duration if a common child has been born therein or has been continued by entering a marriage.
The author underlines the problem of legal uncertainty that arises from the fact that non-marital union is informal and that preconditions for non-marital union effects are different in different legal branches. Overall, legal regulation of non-marital union in Croatia is inconsistent due to particular legal solutions.
U ovom se radu izlaže novo obiteljskopravno uređenje ostvarivanja roditeljske skrbi nakon prestanka obiteljske zajednice. Nakon kratkoga pravnopovijesnog pregleda razvoja domaćeg zakonodavstva ...poslije II. svjetskog rata upućuje se na to da je novo uređenje ostvarivanja roditeljske skrbi imalo uzor u njemačkome pravnom sustavu, no korak je unatrag u osiguravanju mogućnosti roditeljima da ostvaruju ne samo pravo na roditeljsku skrb nego i ljudska prava.
U radu se pokušavaju otkriti razlozi korjenite promjene instituta ostvarivanja roditeljske skrbi, propituje se pravni položaj roditelja u novome pravnom uređenju te daju prijedlozi promjena.
Konvencija o pravima osoba s invaliditetom donijela je, na međunarodnoj razini, novi pristup pravima osoba s invaliditetom i obvezala države stranke na promjene i na pravnoj i na političkoj razini. ...Republika Hrvatska ju je ratificirala i na taj način zasigurno dovela u nesklad propise o skrbništvu s njezinim zahtjevima. U radu autorice, nakon prikaza relevantnih odredaba Konvencije i Fakultativnog protokola, preispituju ponajprije obiteljskopravnu razinu zaštite ljudskih prava osoba lišenih poslovne sposobnosti, koje kao osobe s invaliditetom podliježu zaštiti ove Konvencije, te predlažu smjer promjena instituta skrbništva.
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