Publication details
Czech Republic: The Content of the Right to Parental Responsibility
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | The chapter of the book focuses on parental responsibility as a key concept of the Czech family law. First of all, it must be stressed that the term parental responsibility (in Czech “rodičovská zodpovědnost”) was introduced into the Czech legal order in 1998. It happened within the changes that have taken place after the fall of the previous political regime and its legal sources based on “Soviet model” and communist ideology in 1989. The international human rights conventions signed in the early 90s led to several changes in general. Not only cleansing from ideological sediment, but also a different attitude to the duties and rights of the child’s parents and emphasis on the rights of the child should be underlined. Thanks to the case law of both the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic, family law started to be understood, interpreted, and applied in harmony with generally shared European values. |