Procedure to limit legal capacity

Procedure to limit legal capacity, Abstract This paper on the topic of procedures to limit legal capacity is chiefly about the prerequisites, purpose, nature and progress of such procedures and also the form of the rulings issued during these procedures. It maps not only the legal regulations for directing such a procedure in accordance with Act No. 293/2013 Sb., on special judicial procedures, but also its practical impact, current court practice and particularly findings from court practice. This work emphasises and minutely discusses selected issues regarding the procedure to limit legal capacity, i.e. the moment of submission of expert opinions, the need to appoint a guardian ad litem during each procedure, the content, scope and definition of decisions in these matters. This paper also interconnects substantive legal and procedural law, because the inseparability of substantive and procedural law is highly evident in procedures to limit legal capacity, whereas the purpose pursued in Act No. 89/2012 Sb. Civil Code is fulfilled by means of judicial procedures. This paper also briefly compares the regulations concerning the institute of legal capacity in the past and contemporary interpretation of the term. The basis of this paper is a complex treatise of judicial procedures in matters of legal capacity...