Subject:  CZECH FAMILY LAW


Co-ordinator: doc. JUDr. Zdeňka Králíčková, Ph.D.


Lecturers:   doc. JUDr. Zdeňka Králíčková, Ph.D.

                     JUDr. Radovan Dávid

                     Ph.D. students


Room: 254


Language: English


Semester:  Spring  2010

                   Monday 11,10-12,40


Examination – credit requirements: 1. Semester paper – written essay and case study

2. Discussion  on semester
paper
                                   3. Written Test Yes/No

The mark:

for mark A – 181 and more
for mark B – 163 – 180,
for mark C – 146 – 162,
for mark D – 129 – 145,
for mark E – 111 – 128,
               F – all under 110 points

attendance (maximum 48 points – 12 x 4)
activity (maximum 24 points – 12 x 2),
semester paper (maximum 50 points)
exam (maximum 80 points)


About the subject :

            Introduction into Czech Family Law. History – Presents – Future. Marriage. Registered
partnership. Cohabitation.  Filiations. Parental responsibility. Maintenance duty. Adoption. Foster
care. Guardianship and Custodianship.   Cases  of the European Court of Human rights – Right to
Respect  Private and Family life (art.  8 of the  Convention for the  Protection of Human Rights
and Fundamental Freedoms).



Course syllabus - general:

1.                  Introduction into Czech Family Law. History – Present – Future.

2.                  Marriage.

3.                  Registered partnership.

4.                  Cohabitation.

5.                  Filiations. Case study: Case of Paulík v. the Slovak Republic.

6.                  Parental responsibility.

7.                  Maintenance duty.

8.                  Adoption.

9.                  Foster care.

10.              Case study: Case of Wallova and Wallo v. the Czech Republic.

11.              Guardianship and Custodianship.

12.              Law against Domestic Violence in the Czech Republic.



Literature in English:

1)      M. Hrušáková: International encyclopaedia of laws. Family and succession law: Czech
Republic: Czech Republic: Family and Succession law.  International encyclopaedia of family and
succession law.  The Hague : Kluwer Law International, 2002. 210 s.

2)      M. Hrušáková: Czech Family Law. Brno: Masaryk University, 2006.

3)      The Czech republic: Civil Code “Občanský zákoník”. 2007 editon. Praha: Trade Links. 2007.

4)      Z. Králíčková: Adoption in the Czech  Republic: Reform  in the Light of the Child Welfare
Laws. The International Survey of Family Law. 2003 Edition, Jordan Publishing Limited, 2003.

5)      Z. Králíčková: Czech Family Law  after the Czech republic has acceded to the European
Union.  Legal Studies and Practice Journal, 2006, No. IV, s. 362 – 370.

6)      Z. Králíčková: Czech family law: the right time for re-codification. The International
Survey of Family Law. 2009 Edition. In print.

7)      Z. Králíčková: Tention between  legal,  bioplogical and social  parentage in the light of
the best interest  of the child. Legal Studies and Practice Journal, 2008 No. III, 275 – 282.

8)      Z. Králíčková:  Czech Family Law: the Right Time for Re-Codification.            In:
Atkins, B.(ed.):  The International Survey of Family Law. 2009 Edition, Jordan  Publishing Limited,
2009,  s. 157 – 173.

9)      Z. Králíčková:  Legal Protection of Unmarried and Divorced Mothers in the Czech Republic.
In: Verschraegen, B. (ed.):   Family  Finances. Vídeň: Jan Sramek Verlag, 2009, s. 281 – 291.

10)  I. Schwenzer, M. Dimsey: Model Family Code. From a Global Perspective. Antwerpen – Oxford,
Intersentia, 2006.



Cases of the International  Court of Human Rights:

Case Marckx v. Belgium

Case Odièvre v. France

Case of Paulík v. the Slovak Republic

Case Keegan v. Irland

Case Fretté v. France

Case  E. B. v. France

Case Kutzner v. Germany

Case of Wallova and Wallo v. the Czech Republic







Course syllabus:  Spring term 2010


I.

1. 3.      Zdeňka  Králíčková


Introduction into Czech Family Law. History – Present – Future.



II.

8. 3.      Martin Kornel


Cohabitation.

Registered partnership.



III.

15. 3.    Zdeňka Králíčková


                Marriage.


IV.

22. 3.      Zdeňka Králíčková


Filiations. Case study: Case of Paulík v. the Slovak Republic.



V.

29. 3.      Anna Hořínová


       Parental responsibility.



5. 3.         Easter –  No lecture



VI.

12. 4.      Zdeňka Králíčková


       Adoption.



VII.

19. 4.       Zdeňka Králíčková


     Foster care.



VIII.


26. 4.     Martin Kornel


   Maintenance duty.



IX.

3. 5.      Radovan Dávid


       Case study: Case of Wallova and Wallo v. the Czech Republic.

       Guardianship and Custodianship.


X.

10. 5.     Radovan Dávid


         Law against Domestic Violence.


XI.

17. 5.    Zdeňka Králíčková


     Discussion  on written  essay  and case  study.  The test.



XII.          Michaela Janočková

    ?            Visit to the Office for the International Legal Protection of Children.

                  Intercountry adoption and Problems of  International Child´
Abductions.