Issues of the required consent to adoption

Resumé The Matter of the adoption agreement request The aim of this thesis is to offer a complex view of the matter of the adoption agreement. It may be unbelievable how significant may such an agreement be and what all is changed due to it - the position of the child being adopted, his biological parents, adoptive parents and his whole family as well. The text is systematically devided into five chapters. The introductory chapter clarifies the general aspects of the adoption process. It is devided into two parts dedicated to the clarification of the notions for example alternative family care, historical development, sources of the law dealing with adoption and social-legal child protection. The main part of the thesis is dealt with in the second chapter, it is the process of adoption agreement. It is devided into seven parts concerning the matter of adoption agreement request by adult and non-adult parents, agreement of the child being adopted and various specific cases when for example only one of the married couple or a new partner of the child's parent is adopting. The question of the so-called "straight adoption" is worth mentioning as well - litigant, nonetheless still existing practice of Fond ohrožených dětí (The Foundation for endangered children). Even the figures of custodian and guardian play..