Preliminary communication

Enforcement of Parent and Child Visitation Rights

Antun Žagar ; Judge of the Administrative Court in Rijeka

Abstract

All proceedings involving children should primarily be conducted with the child's best interests in mind, which have priority over all other interests and demands. Protection of the best interests of a child is particularly difficult in proceedings to enforce visitation rights. By interpreting national law and case-law and by examining comparable legal solutions, the author supports the claim that enforcement of visitation rights requires special legal provisions separate from those on the enforcement of custody rights. The paper focuses on empirical research aimed at showing to what extent parents in the Republic of Croatia resort to legal action to obtain visitation rights and how effective these proceedings are. The objective of the comparative analysis is to compare the relevant national law with foreign trends and to suggest which experiences of other countries could be incorporated into national law

Keywords

visitation; parent; child; enforcement

Hrčak ID:

129498

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/129498

Publication date:

18.4.2013.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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