Subject:  CZECH FAMILY LAW


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


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

                     (contact hours for students: Wednesday 11.10 – 12.40,  room No.  254)

                     JUDr. Radovan Dávid

                     PGS students


Room: 266


Language: English


Semester:  Winter 2009,  Mondays: 15,15 – 16,45


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 – Presents – 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:  Winter term 2009


I.

21. 9.      Zdeňka  Králíčková


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



28. 9.       State Holiday – No lecture



II.

5. 10.     Zdeňka Králíčková


2.   Marriage.


III.

12. 10.    Martin Kornel


3.      Registered partnership.

4.   Cohabitation.


IV.

19. 10.      Zdeňka Králíčková


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



V.

26. 10.      Anna Hořínová


6.      Parental responsibility.



2. 11          Petr Sedlák a Michaela Janočková

                 Visit to the Office for the International Legal Protection of Children

                  Intercountry adoption and Problems of  International Child´
Abductions



VI.

9. 11       Martin Kornel


7.      Maintenance duty.



VII.

16. 11.       Zdeňka Králíčková


8.      Adoption.



VIII.

23. 11.      Zdeňka Králíčková


9.      Foster care.



IX.

30. 11.      Radovan Dávid


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

11.  Guardianship and Custodianship.


X.

7. 12.         Radovan Dávid


12.  Law against Domestic Violence in the Czech Republic.


XI.

14. 12.    Zdeňka Králíčková


      Discussion  on written  essay  and case  study,  the test