How to Legislate Family Relations?

Ministarstvo rada i socijalne skrbi pripremilo je Nacrt prijedloga zakona o obiteljskim odnosima koji će uskoro ići na raspravu u Sabor Republike Hrvatske. Autorica u ovom prilogu komentira temeljne odredbe Nacrta zakona, a posebnu pažnju posvećuje inovacijama koje on predviđa. Značajna novina u Nacrtu jeste u tome da se građanima pruža mogućnost izbora između građanskog i vjerskog oblika sklapanja braka. Kada je riječ o izvanbračnoj djeci, u Nacrtu su nove odredbe kojima je cilj utvrđivanje očinstva u što većem broju slučajeva, ali i materinstva napuštene djece. Položaj djeteta u obitelji u Nacrtu je uređen tako da je stavljen akcenat na prava i zaštitu djeteta. Važna novina u Nacrtu tiče se imovine stečene u braku koja se smatra suvlasništvom bračnih drugova u jednakim dijelovima. Autorica na kraju upozorava na veliku ulogu koju će imati organi koji će primjenjivati Zakon te sami građani Republike Hrvatske na koje se on odnosi.The Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare drafted the Bill on Family Relations that will soon be under debate in the Parliament of the Republic of Croatia. The author of the paper comments on the basic provisions of the Bill and gives particular attention to its innovations. One of these innovations is the fact that it gives the citizens an opportunity to choose between the civil and religious form of contracting marriage. With regard to extramarital children, there are new provisions for determining the fatherhood in as many cases as possible but also the motherhood of abandoned children. The position of children in the family is regulated in such a way as to highlight the lights and the protection of the child. Another innovation in the Bill regards the property acquired in marriage, considered as co-ownership of the spouses in equal shares. The author points out the important role that the law applying bodies and the citizens of the Republic of Croatia, who it concerns, will have in its implementation