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<p>Contact with the child has for years been the subject of deliberations and discussions of entities interested in the welfare of the child, often caught up in the conflict between the parents. They concern, among others, the role of professional guardians/probation officers, whose presence during parent-child contact, according to the law, constitutes one of the forms of court restrictions on this form of maintenance of the parent-child relationship. The aim of the text is an attempt to identify the technical problems associated with the implementation of the court decisions in this matter, and thus to indicate the gross disproportion between the current shape of the regulations on the participation of a guardian in parent-child contact and the needs of practice. Thus, the aim of the study is to engage the community of guardians in the ongoing work on legislative changes and the potential effects of the proposed legislation, including substantive and implementing provisions of family law aimed at the guaranteed right to contact with the child.</p>
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Contact with the child has for years been the subject of deliberations and discussions of entities interested in the welfare of the child, often caught up in the conflict between the parents. They concern, among others, the role of professional guardians/probation officers, whose presence during parent-child contact, according to the law, constitutes one of the forms of court restrictions on this form of maintenance of the parent-child relationship. The aim of the text is an attempt to identify the technical problems associated with the implementation of the court decisions in this matter, and thus to indicate the gross disproportion between the current shape of the regulations on the participation of a guardian in parent-child contact and the needs of practice. Thus, the aim of the study is to engage the community of guardians in the ongoing work on legislative changes and the potential effects of the proposed legislation, including substantive and implementing provisions of family law aimed at the guaranteed right to contact with the child.

Parent-Child Contacts in the Presence of Legal Court-Appointed Guardian. Practice in View of the Need for Legislative Change

Białostockie Studia Prawnicze

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Contact with the child has for years been the subject of deliberations and discussions of entities interested in the welfare of the child, often caught up in...

Parent-Child Contacts in the Presence of Legal Court-Appointed Guardian. Practice in View of the Need for Legislative Change

Publié en ligne: 18 oct. 2022

Pages: 91 - 106

Reçu: 31 janv. 2022

Accepté: 30 avr. 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15290/bsp.2022.27.03.05

Mots clés
family law, forms of contact, guardian ad litem, guardians/probation officers, guardianship, visitation rights

© 2022 Beata Goworko-Składanek et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Parent-Child Contacts in the Presence of Legal Court-Appointed Guardian. Practice in View of the Need for Legislative Change

Publié en ligne: 18 oct. 2022

Pages: 91 - 106

Reçu: 31 janv. 2022

Accepté: 30 avr. 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15290/bsp.2022.27.03.05

Mots clésfamily law, forms of contact, guardian ad litem, guardians/probation officers, guardianship, visitation rights

© 2022 Beata Goworko-Składanek et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
family law, forms of contact, guardian ad litem, guardians/probation officers, guardianship, visitation rights