Subject:  CZECH FAMILY LAW





Co-ordinator: JUDr. Ing. Radovan Dávid, Ph.D.


Lecturers:   JUDr. Ing. Radovan Dávid, Ph.D.

Ph.D. students:  Mgr. Martina Cirbusová, Mgr. Veronika Kozlová,
Mgr. Michaela Janočková


Room: 215


Language: English


Semester:  Spring 2013

                   Monday 15:00 – 16:30


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).





Literature in English:

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

2)      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.

3)      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.

4)      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.

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

6)      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.

7)      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.

8)      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.

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



Case law of the International Court of Human Rights:

Case Marckx v. Belgium

Case Odièvre v. France

Case Paulík v. the Slovak Republic

Case Keegan v. Irland

Case Fretté v. France

Case  E. B. v. France

Case Kutzner v. Germany

Case Wallova and Wallo v. the Czech Republic

Case Evans v. the UK

Case Z and others v. the UK

Case Bevaqua v. Bulgary

Case Schalk and Kopf v. Austria










Course syllabus:  Spring term 2013


25. 2.   Radovan Dávid

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


4. 3.     Radovan Dávid

                  Marriage.


11. 3.   Radovan Dávid

                  Cohabitation.

Registered partnership.


18. 3.   Radovan Dávid

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


25. 3.   Radovan Dávid

       Parental responsibility.


1. 4.     Radovan Dávid

                   Adoption.


8. 4.     Radovan Dávid

       Foster care.


15. 4.   Radovan Dávid

      Maintenance duty.


22. 4.   Radovan Dávid

           Guardianship and Custodianship.  Institute care.

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


29. 4.   Radovan Dávid

            Law against Domestic Violence.


6. 5.     Radovan Dávid

     Discussion  on written  essay  and case  study.  The test.


+          Radovan Dávid/Martina Cirbusová/Michaela Janočková

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

                 Intercountry adoption and Problems of  International Child´
Abductions.