Original scientific paper
Obligatory Counselling and Family Mediation de Lege Lata and de Lege Ferenda
Irena Majstorović
orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-5968
; Faculty of Law University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to analyse legislative changes introduced by Family Law Act of 2014 and 2015 respectively and to shed additional light on the most important questions of the new regulation of obligatory counselling and family mediation. The key questions include the introduction of gradual approach in the state assistance to families in crisis; the meaning, scope and voluntariness of the family mediation as regards the solutions now in force; participation of children in the procedures of obligatory counselling and family mediation as well as the deficiencies of relevant bylaws regulating this area. As a result of the analysis, the proposals de lege ferenda are offered, with the aim of further improvement of very valuable means of peaceful resolution of family law conflicts.
Keywords
Family Law Act; obligatory counselling; family mediation
Hrčak ID:
191577
URI
Publication date:
22.12.2017.
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