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The main aim of this research is the analysis of the provisions of the Cres-Osor Statute dealing with family law, with special regard to the regulation of marital property law. Although the Statute has been the subject of scientific discussions, a thorough analysis of the features of family law, that is, matrimonial property law has not yet been given. The paper will try to causally investigate the origin of certain institutes of family law. Consequently, the provisions of family law were analysed in detail, and compared with the corresponding solutions of other nearby communes, that is, the northern Adriatic islands and other Dalmatian legal systems. In addition, within the aforementioned analysis, the paper also deals with the position of women in processes that were of vital importance for a woman’s life, such as marriage, betrothal, dowry etc. In the end, the author comes to the conclusion that with regard to the fluid demarcation of the “Dalmatian” and “Kvarner” legal regions, the regulation of family and matrimonial property law in the Cres-Osor Statute reflects the influences of several legal systems: Roman, Byzantine, Venetian, Lombard and Slavic law, which indicates the interaction of different legal cultures of varying intensity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In terms of developmental needs, children's rights and protection of the best interests of children, the need for of early preventive interventions in the biological family and placing the child him/her in foster families, in case of removaling the child from the family, are is being more and more emphasized. However, when thinking about their development, it is important to have the information on current trends in foster care in the world and on the factors that promote or inhibit quality foster care in order for those interventions by the system to adequately really respond to the needs of foster children and their foster and biological families. Accordingly, the purpose of this paper, except to point out the current trends in foster care in countries with different traditions and levels of economic developments, is to extract factors that were identified as facilitators or inhibitors of the process of foster care, retention of foster parents in foster care status and stability of the child placement. The aim of this paper is to provide a description of the empirical indicators of possible directions for of improving the care for children in foster care, and empowering foster parents in their role. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper attempts to deal with the institute of maintenance of adults (spouses, extramarital partners, and same-sex partners). After introductory remarks on the fundamental features of the institute of maintenance, the author clarifies the difference between maintenance as an institute of family law and maintenance as regulated in civil law regulations. A special focus of the paper is a comparative analysis of the legal solutions laid down in the Principles of European Family Law (a non-binding legal document issued by the Commission on European Family Law) and the legal solutions in Irish family law legislation, compared to the Croatian solutions. In the final part of the paper, the author presents the results of the research, and the conclusions drawn from the study of the legal regulation of maintenance of adults. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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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]

In the paper, the author starts from the constitutional and international-law obligation of the state to ensure a dignified life and guaranteed life standard to children in case of the lack of family-law support. The paper presents the measures of the family law and social security law which are envisioned de lege lata in the Republic of Croatia as the substitutes in case of the lack of family-law support of the children, as well as their conceptual division. In some European countries, the problem of the parental failure to pay the support is solved through the payment of the advance from specially established funds. The institute of advance for the support is comparatively presented in the paper, and based on the described European solutions and referring to the Council of Europe Recommendation on the Advance for the Support, a de lege ferenda solution is offered for the Republic of Croatia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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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 aim of the paper is to analyse the interdependence between family law, as a branch of law that regulates the relationships of the family members within the legal system on one side, and the social welfare system on the other side. On the occasion of the thematic issue of the Journal of Social Policy and its focus on the development of social work in the period between 1900 and 1960, the aforementioned interdependence shall be reviewed in the light of the development of the legal institute of guardianship during the validity of the Austrian General Civil Code of 1852 and the post World War II period. The influence of such a development on contemporaneous legal system shall also be reviewed. The reason for paying special attention to guardianship lies in the fact that guardianship, as one of the relations regulated by family law, is strongly supported by the activities and work of the social service institutions, as well as vice versa. The protection of persons who are most in need of social welfare system services can be improved only by constant, stable and high quality normative framework, and last but not least, the continuous development of family law and social work sciences. [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]

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The article looks into the isse of party autonomy in various areas of private international law including family law, personal status issue and right of inheritance. It provides an overview of the fundamental problems of the choice of applicable law and the role of globalization in the internationalization of families moving across borders. It also tackles the need for these families to have an effective cross-border legal system and legal protection.

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The article focuses on proposed changes for the Family Law Amendment Act 2007 of the government of Croatia.