Selected Codification Challenges in Polish Family Law

Polish family law is undergoing change. For some time now, there have been various initiatives for its possible revision. However, social needs are ahead of legislators’ actions. Today there are a number of legislative challenges facing the Polish legislator in the context of the metamorphosis of Polish family law. The author presents selected problems connected with it and answers the question concerning the desirable way of further work on the metamorphosis of the present regulation of Polish family law. The author also presents issues that cannot be ignored in the context of preparing possible draft amendments to the current legislation. He highlights the role of the Commission on European Family Law and proposes that the starting point for the further metamorphosis of Polish family law would be the establishment of such a body in Poland based on the model of the Commission for the Codification of Family and Guardianship Law, whose work should be transparent and widely available.