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Principles of European Family Law as an Inspiration for Law Makers in Europe

Authors

ZATLOUKALOVÁ Lucie

Year of publication 2021
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Sborník Cofola 2021: part 2
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Law

Citation
Web Open access sborníku
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.P210-9981-2021
Keywords De Facto Couples; Unmarried Cohabitation; Legislation; Harmonization; Family Law; European Law; Principles
Description The Commission on European Family Law is an international group of academic experts on family law. The principles aim is to help harmonize European law and to inspire national legislators to modernize their legislation. The principles try to capture the common core of individual national legislations. If some substantial question has no common core, the Commission creates a new rule, so-called “better law”. The Principles relating to couples in de facto unions deals mainly with the definition and application framework, general rights and obligations, agreements, property and debts, termination of cohabitation, death and mutual disputes. The Principles are of a recommendatory nature only. In Czech Republic the conservative approach prevailed, and de facto unions have no specific legal regulation. In the future, there can be some interesting legal constructions of rights and duties of couple in de facto union that could be an inspiration for Czech legislator. In this contribution I will choose such rights and duties according to the Principles.
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