Adoption

The aim of this thesis about adoption was to analyse this juridical institute deeper and describe its genesis in a period from about 1811 till present time, when legislation work on new Civil Code is ending. This work was focused on analysing actual legal regulations and some of its crucial problems, that rises from its aplications. With regard to historical closeness of German and Czech law, main differences between these legal regulations of this juridical institute of adoption were compared and determined. The character of the juridical institute of adoption has changed since beginning of 19th century from conception that protected mainly proprietary relations to current character as a form of substitutional family care. Especially aspects coming from basic human rights that were included in many international conventions (including Declaration of Basic Rights) during second half of 20th century were highlited. Methods like comparing and determining resulting from available literature were used for this work