MP509Zk Family Law

Faculty of Law
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. JUDr. Milana Hrušáková, CSc. (lecturer)
prof. JUDr. Zdeňka Králíčková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
JUDr. Ing. Radovan Dávid, Ph.D. (alternate examiner)
Guaranteed by
prof. JUDr. Zdeňka Králíčková, Ph.D.
Department of Civil Law – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Bc. Gabriela Uhlířová
Timetable
Wed 15:05–16:35 140, Wed 15:05–16:35 034
Prerequisites (in Czech)
(NOW( MP509Z Family Law - seminar ) || MP509Z Family Law - seminar || MP402Z Family Law - seminar ) && ( MP410Zk Civil Law III || CM410Zk Civil Law III )
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
  • Law (programme PrF, M-PPV) (2)
Course objectives
The main aim of the courses is obtaining both the knowledge and active skills from family law as a basic branch of private law. At the end of the course the students will be able to search, study, analyze and comment the case law of the Constitutional court and the European court of Human Rights. The students will be be able to understand and explain human rights dimension of family law and its importance for a human being as a child, parent, husband, substitute parent etc. Students will study and work with foreign legal orders to understand the process of convergence and divergence of family laws in Europe, their roots. The student will get known the "common core" and create "better law". The students will understand development and perspectives. Only good understanding can be followed by good application. The students will be able to make reasoned decision about all the family law cases. The students will study, analyze, interprete and solve - beside other activities - both real cases and model cases. They will discuss and argue all the family law topics.
Syllabus
  • Family law: purpose, aim and place in system of laws. Conclusion of marriage. Putative and voidable marriage. Rights and duties of spouses. Divorce. Cohabitation: rights and duties of cohabitees. Registered partnership: conclusion, rights and duties of partners, cancellation of partnership. Parentage. Challenging. Parental responsibility. Maintenance. Substitute care: foster care, adoption. Guardianship. Custodianship. The rights of the child. Legal protection of children. Re-codification of family law. Europaisation of family law.
Literature
  • KRÁLÍČKOVÁ, Zdeňka and Milana HRUŠÁKOVÁ. České rodinné právo. 3. vyd. (Czech Family Law. 3rd ed.). 3., přeprac. a dopl. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita a Doplněk, 2006, 400 pp. (Edice učebnic PrF MU ; č. 376). ISBN 80-210-3974-4. info
  • KRÁLÍČKOVÁ, Zdeňka. Zákon o rodině. Komentář. 3. vyd. (Family Code. Commentary.). In Hrušáková, M. a kol. : Zákon o rodině. Komentář. 3. vyd., Praha: C. H. Beck, 2005. 3. vyd. Praha: C. H. Beck`sche Verlag und Buchhandlung (Oscar Beck), 2005, 150 pp. (Beckova edice komentované zákony). ISBN 80-7179-912-2. info
  • HRUŠÁKOVÁ, Milana and Zdeňka KRÁLÍČKOVÁ. Rodinné právo : praktická cvičení. 4. vyd. 4., přeprac. a dopl. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2005, 139 pp. (Edice učebnic Právnické fakulty MU ; č. 359). ISBN 80-210-3719-9. info
  • HRUŠÁKOVÁ, Milana. International encyclopaedia of laws. The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2002, 210 s. info
  • HRUŠÁKOVÁ, Milana. Legal protection of children in the Czech Republic. In Survey of lectures on Czech law. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1995, p. 65-67. Acta Universitatis Brunensis Iuridica ; No 146. ISBN 80-210-1079-7. info
  • KRÁLÍČKOVÁ, Zdeňka. Developments in Marriage and Marital Law in the Czech Republic. In Marriage and Quasi Marital Relationships in Central and Eastern Europe. 1. vydání. USA Provo Utah: BUY Academic Publishing, 2008, p. 173 - 198. Marriage and Quasi Marital Relationships in Centra. ISBN 978-0-8425-2720-0. info
  • KRÁLÍČKOVÁ, Zdeňka. Czech family law after the Czech Republic has been accepted to the European Union. Časopis pro právní vědu a praxi. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2006, Vol. 14, Nr. 4, p. 362-370. ISSN 1210-9126. info
  • KRÁLÍČKOVÁ, Zdeňka. Adoption and implementation of the U.N. Convention on the rights of the child in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The Journal of East European Law. New York: Columbia University School of Law, 2003, Vol. 10, No. 1, p. 103-126, 14 pp. ISSN 1074-9292. info
  • KRÁLÍČKOVÁ, Zdeňka. Study on the Enforcement of Family Law Judgements: Czech Republic Report. T. M. C. Asser Instituut, Haag, 2007. info
  • HRUŠÁKOVÁ, Milana. Czech family law : multimediální učební text. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2006, 103 pp. (Edice multimediálních pomůcek PrF MU ; č. 19). ISBN 802103937X. info
  • KRÁLÍČKOVÁ, Zdeňka. Evoluzione, problemi e prospettive del diritto di famiglia della Repubblica Ceca. Familia : Rivista di diritto della famiglia e delle successioni in Europa. Milano: Giuffrè, 2002, Roč. 2, č. 3, p. 805-825. ISSN 1592-9930. info
Teaching methods
The course Family law is based mainly on lectures. They give students the basic information of family law and its institutions. The Power-Point presentations are available on the information system and el-portal of the Masaryk University. The text book Czech family law was written to give the student the opportunity to study at home and prepare well for practical seminars. Practical seminars (workshops) are inter-active. They are based on syllabuses: part one is more theoretical (topics for discussion) and part two is more practical (cases). One time a term the students solve the real case based on petition, courts recording, decision, opinion of expert-witness etc.). Everything is available on information system. The students work on active skills (drills), good written and oral self-presentation. They participate at class discussion. Students understands better the problematic, remember the key institutions and use them i practical life.
Assessment methods
The course is based on lectures and practical seminars (workshops), which are obligatory. The key condition for obtaining the credits is active participation on presentations and class discussion on practical cases, model cases and case studies based on decisions of the Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights, including the dissent opinions. The home individual study of law, cases, literature and PowerPoint presentations is - beside the attendance at lectures - precondition. Students have to present home written preparation during workshops. They have to defend the results. The lectures are focused on theoretic and systematical introduction into the problematic and on the key case law. The exam is oral. It is based on case study and 2 theoretic questions. The teacher gives value to each part of the exam. When one part is wrong, the mark is failed. The methods serve for obtaining information whether the students got both the information on family law and practical skills.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Předmět je určen pro max. 10 studentů jiných fakult.
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