Prenuptial agreement

Pogodba o ureditvi premoženjskopravnih razmerij med zakoncema v slovenskem pravnem redu še do pred kratkim ni bila urejena, saj je zakonca strogo omejeval kogentni, zakoniti premoženjski režim. Vendar tudi pri nas že dlje časa obstajajo težnje po uvedbi tovrstne pogodbe, saj je postalo jasno, da kogentna ureditev ne ustreza družbenemu napredku in sodobnim standardom varstva človekovih pravic, zlasti pa je v nasprotju z načeloma avtonomije in dispozitivnosti, ki vladata znotraj civilnega prava. Del splošne svobode odločanja posameznika je namreč tudi samoodločba in avtonomno oblikovanje razmerij v pravni sferi, v katero država ne sme nesorazmerno posegati. Mnogokrat tudi pozabljamo, da ima zakonska zveza dvojno naravo in je poleg intimnega hkrati tudi poslovni odnos med partnerjema. V kolikor jima je dogovor o njunih medsebojnih premoženjskih razmerjih omogočen še za časa trajanja skupnosti, se skrajšajo, pocenijo in olajšajo mnogokrat mučni, čustveno nabiti ločitveni postopki. Prisotnost družinskopravnih elementov v tovrstnih pogodbah pa je podlaga za omejitve pogodbene svobode, z namenom zaščite šibkejšega zakonca in otrok ter tudi dedičev, vendar je v skladu z načelom sorazmernosti mogoče z zakonsko natančno določenimi varovalkami in omejitvami pogodbene svobode zaščito doseči z milejšimi ukrepi od absolutne prepovedi sklepanja pogodb s tovrstno vsebino, ki pomeni popolno izključitev avtonomije zakoncev.A contract, regulating financial relations between marital spouses, was until recently not implemented in the Slovenian legal order. Spouses were rigidly limited by a cogent regime. In the recent years, however, aspirations to introduce such a contract have emerged, since it has become clear that a cogent regime is inconsistent with the development of todays society and moder standards of human rights protection, even more so in the light of the prevailing legal principles of autonomy and dispositivity within Slovenian tort law. Autonomous establishment of private legal relationships is an inherent part of general individual liberty, and any state intervention must be in compliance with the principle of proportionality. Furthermore, we all too often forget about the double nature of marital relations, which is on the one hand intimate, and on the other hand a business relationship between partners. By enabling such fianancial agreements the distressing, emotionally exhausting divorce proceedings are shortened and facilitated. The presence of typical elements of family law in the contracts in question merely forms a basis for restriction of contractual liberty to protect vounerable parties. Nevertheless, the protection can, in accordance with the principe of proportionality, be easily achieved through measures of lesser severity than those of absolute prohibition of prenuptial agreements, and therefore total exclusion of spousal autonomy