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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.

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