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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is an international treaty that grants all children a comprehensive set of rights. These include the right of every child to a standard of living adequate for the child's physical, mental, spiritual, moral and social development. An elementary part of the standard of living is child care and protection. The Republic of Croatia, as a Party to the Convention, is obligated to take all appropriate measures to secure the recovery of maintenance for the child; to undertake all appropriate legislative, administrative, and other measures for the implementation of recognized right and guarantee the child such protection and care as is necessary for his or her well-being. The paper analyzes the system of child maintenance in Croatian Family Law in accordance with the state's responsibility to ensure efficient protection and exercise child's right to maintenance. The paper also analyzes the new provisions of the Family Law Act intended to improve and simplify the procedure of exercising the child's rights to maintenance through courts and thus to provide better efficiency in the realization of this right. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper considers the child's right to contact with the non-resident parent and with its broader family as granted by Articles 8 and 9 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In terms of the right to contact, there is an issue of maintaining personal relations between the child and the parent living in different countries (Article 11 of the Convention) as well as an issue of the child's procedural right to express its views in proceedings deciding on some of its rights, including the right to contact (Article 12 of the Convention). Finally, there is the so-called standard Article 3 of the Convention which is aimed at protection of the child's right to its best interest being respected in all the proceedings deciding on its rights. Besides the above child's conventional rights which influence exercising the right to contact, the paper also includes an overview of the legislation from the Family Act, by means of which the Republic of Croatia fulfils its international obligation to respect the above child's rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author analyses the provisions of the family law that regulate the acknowledgment of paternity under unlawful compulsion and also briefly dwells upon the criminal law provisions on force. The author deals with the positive legislation aspects of the matter in question with emphasis on the legal possibilities of the victim. In addition, the author briefly analyses the issue of protecting the rights of the child whose paternity has been acknowledged under unlawful compulsion referring to the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of the Child. Finally, given that the paper is primarily an analysis of the subject and not a research thesis, the author focuses on the crucial facts and significant opinions mentioned in the previous chapters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author analyses the provisions of the family law that regulate the acknowledgment of paternity under unlawful compulsion and also briefly dwells upon the criminal law provisions on force. The author deals with the positive legislation aspects of the matter in question with emphasis on the legal possibilities of the victim. In addition, the author briefly analyses the issue of protecting the rights of the child whose paternity has been acknowledged under unlawful compulsion referring to the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of the Child. Finally, given that the paper is primarily an analysis of the subject and not a research thesis, the author focuses on the crucial facts and significant opinions mentioned in the previous chapters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the paper is to point out the possible consequences of the novel of the Family Act by which the upper age limit of an adoptee and the upper age difference between an adoptee and an adopted person are abrogated as assumptions for adoption. The author provides an insight into the general historical development of the institute of adoption and the one on Croatian legal area, emphasising the last twenty years and focusing primarily on the age as an assumption for adoption. The central point is that, if nothing else, the time for this legislative action has not yet come considering the reality with regard to the institute of adoption and that it encourages the disruption of the principle adoption naturam imitatur, but also the contemporary principle of the best interest of the child in favour of potential adoptees. That point of view is additionally substantiated with the analyses of the comparative law situation and relevant legal acts of international law, which bring us to an conclusion that the legal status before the novel was entirely adequate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author starts with an analysis of the basic facts of custody over adults, through historical review from Roman law until this day. The paper attempts to entirely incorporate valid and existing legal regulation in the Republic of Croatia related to this institute of family law and persons protected by it. The essay lists reasons for attainment of capacity to exercise rights (attainment of capacity to exercise rights, placement under custody, and reinstitution of capacity to exercise rights) and obligations imposed on the guardian by the Family Act. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyses different regulation of marriage procedures in Croatia and different forms of marriage at the present. Legal historical development has greatly affected and contributed to the existing state of marriage in the legal field. According to Croatian Family Code, marriage is a legal life-long union of a man and woman. The Croatian legal system allows for a choice between civil and religious marriage with private law effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]