Mutual duty to support and maintain between parents and children

RESUMÉ The paper deals with the question of maintenance duties both of parents towards their children and of children towards their parents. The core problem of maintenance determination rests on utilization of relatively vague terms and necessity of consideration for too many factors influencing the result. The author's task lies in clarification of this intricate process and in identification of variables entering into this relation. The text consists of 13 parts, each referring to particular point of maintenance duties. The opening chapter mentioning the concept of maintenance itself is followed by the section treating sources of law within the framework the Czech legal order while taking into account previous legal development in Czechoslovakia. The subsequent part describes historical development of the maintenance duty, which could be traced back to the ancient Rome empire. The next heading is dedicated to general characteristic of maintenance duty. The fifth chapter analyses maintenance duty of parents towards their children, where one can identify related important features such as subjects of the relationship, duration, restoring, possibilities to change prescribed alimony, scope of defined alimony etc. Consequently, maintenance duty of children towards their parents is examined reflecting..