Family Law of Ukraine. Country/Territory Ukraine Document type Legislation Date 2002 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject General Keyword Gender Governance Human rights Equity Inheritance Geographical area Black Sea, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Eastern Europe, Europe, Europe and Central Asia Entry into force notes This Family Law came into force on January 1, 2003. Abstract The Family Law of Ukraine regulates: 1. The Family Law of Ukraine defines foundations of marriage, personal non-property and property rights and duties of spouses, grounds of emergence, substance of personal non-property and property rights and duties of parents and children, adoptive parents and adoptive children and other family members and relatives. 2. Regulating family relationship is done with this Law in order to: - to consolidate a family as a social institution and a unity of the certain persons; - to affirm the feeling of duty as to parents, children and other members of the family; - to build family relationship on grounds of equality, feelings of mutual love and respect, mutual support; - to provide each child with family upbringing, opportunity of spiritual and physical development. Clause 2. Partners of family relationship that is regulated with the Family Law of Ukraine. The Family Law of Ukraine also regulates: family personal non-property and property relationship between spouses, between parents and children, adoptive parents and adoptive children, between mother and father of a child as to upbringing, development and support of a child. Full text English Website resourceequity.org