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The paper discusses the problem of raising rate of child labour and its different manifestations. Convention on the Rights of the Child (further: Convention) is undoubtedly the most important instrument of legal child protection and the affirmation of the child's status as the matter of law. Therefore, its role and importance in protecting the child against economic exploitation and, what is even more serious - problems of child labour, will be discussed. The paper also presents the role of the Convention's Facultative protocols which regulate the questions regarding the issue of ivovment of children in armed conflicts, child trafficking, child prostitution and pornography, as well as the role of the Convention of the International Labour Organization which protects the children's rights to protection from economic exploitation. As the Republic of Croatia accepted and ratified the Convention on the Rights of Child along with its Facultative protocols, it is obliged to apply them in Croatian legislation, that will be shown on the examples of family, work and criminal law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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 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 discusses the problem of raising rate of child labour and its different manifestations. Convention on the Rights of the Child (further: Convention) is undoubtedly the most important instrument of legal child protection and the affirmation of the child's status as the matter of law. Therefore, its role and importance in protecting the child against economic exploitation and, what is even more serious - problems of child labour, will be discussed. The paper also presents the role of the Convention's Facultative protocols which regulate the questions regarding the issue of ivovment of children in armed conflicts, child trafficking, child prostitution and pornography, as well as the role of the Convention of the International Labour Organization which protects the children's rights to protection from economic exploitation. As the Republic of Croatia accepted and ratified the Convention on the Rights of Child along with its Facultative protocols, it is obliged to apply them in Croatian legislation, that will be shown on the examples of family, work and criminal law. [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 purpose of this paper is to describe the ways and means by which children of age can exercise their right to maintenance, when all the legal presumptions are fulfilled. At the beginning, the author describes the concept, main principles, and social meaning of the legal institution of maintenance. Afterwards, the legal sources that courts and other bodies or institutions use when deciding upon maintenance, are mentioned. Since the main subject of this work is the maintenance of grown up children, which is a special kind of maintenance, author's first goal has been to explain all the main characteristics of the general institution of maintenance. As a result, further explanation of maintenance of children of age is easier to understand. In the former part of the paper, the author argues special characteristics of the legal nature of maintenance, which are applicable to all kinds of maintenance. Further on, different sorts of child support are described. The latter part of the work is dedicated only to the specific subject of maintenance of children that are of age (grown-up children). Here, the author explains the legal presumptions for this kind of maintenance, and the procedures used when deciding upon the realization of maintenance of children that are of age. Furthermore, the author explains the cases in which this specific maintenance ends, and the means of child protection in the legal procedures that concern them. In this part, there is also brief presentation based on court practice. At the end of the paper, there are several court cases that deal with this topic with short comments. [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]

In the last twenty five years assisted procreation has become a topic of great interest for lawmakers around the world. Ethical dillemmas associated with new procreation methods demand precise laws which leave little uncertainty. Many countries prohibit every other assisted procreation method except in vitro and artificial insemination, but there are also countries that allow even surrogate motherhood. The author begins with defining the medical techniques which constitute assisted procreation today, and continues with explaining the legal framework of assisted procreation in Sweden, Slovenia, Spain, Norway, Austria, and Croatia, with emphasis on distinctive features of each country. The last pages of the paper deal with the right of the child to information about its biological parent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]