Family and custody law 9.6-A-PrO

Family and guardianship law is a set of legal norms regulating property and non-property relations between spouses and relatives, relations resulting from guardianship, care and adoption. The main source of family and guardianship law is the Family and Guardianship Code of 1964. The legal bases of the regulation of this area of law also result from the Constitution of the Republic of Poland, other acts and international law. Each issue is discussed on the basis of case studies, which students solve independently during classes or as part of tasks to be performed.
The following issues are discussed during the course:
a) The rules of family law
b) Systematics of family law
c) The role of the guardianship court and its subsidiary organs
d) Issues of marriage, establishing the non-existence of marriage, legal grounds for annulment of marriage
e) Property and non-property rights and obligations of spouses
f) Property relations between spouses
g) Termination of marriage and separation - material and procedural issues
h) The origin of the child
i) Parental authority and contacts with the child (creation of parental authority, content, means of court interference in the scope of parental authority, the possibility of decisions on parental authority in the divorce judgment)
j) Maintenance obligation, maintenance claims, benefits from the Maintenance Fund
k) Adoption (types and effects of adoption, prerequisites for adoption, secrecy of adoption, adoption solution, procedural issues)
l) Care and guardianship

Supplementary literature

1. K. Gromek, Kodeks rodzinny i opiekuńczy. Komentarz, Wyd. C.H. Beck 2018 2. Kodeks rodzinny i opiekuńczy / wybór orzeczeń i opracowanie merytoryczne Mateusz Kurman., Wyd. C.H. Beck 2018 3. Meritum : prawo rodzinne, red. Grzegorz Jędrejek, Wolters Kluwer 2017 4. Prawo rodzinne dla sędziów i pełnomocników, red. K. Gromek., C.H. Beck 2017 5. P. Mostowik, Władza rodzicielska i opieka nad dzieckiem w prawie prywatnym i międzynarodowym, Wydawnictwo JAK, Kraków 2014. 6. Rodzina i prawo, pod redakcją Dagmary Jaroszewskiej-Choraś, Agnieszki Kilińskiej-Pękacz, Agnieszki Wedeł-Domaradzkiej, Wyd. Uniwersytetu Kazimierza Wielkiego, Bydgoszcz 2017 7. Kodeks rodzinny i opiekuńczy : komentarz : przepisy wprowadzające KRO / redaktor Konrad Osajda ; autorzy Maciej Domański, Mateusz Grochowski, Lechosław Kociucki, Grzegorz Matusik, Piotr Mostowik, Jakub Pawliczak, Marta Prucnal-Wójcik, Jerzy Słyk., Wyd. C.H. Beck 2017 8. Kodeks rodzinny i opiekuńczy po nowelizacji pod red. Jacka Mazurkiewicza, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, Wrocław 2010. 9. R. Zegadło, Sądowe Komentarze Tematyczne pod red. Jacka Ignaczewskiego, Władza rodzicielska i kontakty z dzieckiem. Komentarz, Wydawnictwo C.H.Beck, Warszawa 2015. 10. Kodeks rodzinny i opiekuńczy : komentarz / redaktor Krzysztof Pietrzykowski ; autorzy Janusz Gajda, Jerzy Ignatowicz, Janusz Pietrzykowski, Krzysztof Pietrzykowski, Jan Winiarz., Wyd. C.H. Beck 2018 11. Arkadiusz Bieliński, Maciej Pannert, Prawo rodzinne, Wyd. C.H.Beck, Warszawa 2011

Type of course

obligatory courses

Course coordinators

Magdalena Gołowkin-Hudała
Aleksandra Wilk

Learning outcomes

EK1: knows the rules of family law and has the ability to apply them
EK2: knows the systematics of legal acts in the field of family law
EK3: knows and understands the structure and manner of operation of legal institutions in the field of family law, as well as relations between these institutions
EK4: has the ability to describe, analyze and solve specific legal issues in the field of family law
EK5: has the skills to design and create oral presentations in the field of family law
KNOWLEDGE:
- the student knows the basic legal concepts, construction,
hierarchy family and guardianship law
- knows the systematics of legal acts in the field of family law
- knows the rules of family law and has the ability to apply them
- knows and understands the structure and manner of operation of legal institutions in the field of family law, as well as relations between these institutions
- has the ability to describe, analyze and solve specific legal issues in the field of family law
- has the skills to design and create oral presentations in the field of family law
SKILLS:
- the student can determine the facts and apply the interpretation of family law
- apply the provisions with regard to social and
psychological context of law
- formulates legal solutions de lege lata and de lege ferenda
- uses jurisprudence, dogmatic literature and databases
- solves problems (case studies) that require the use of interdisciplinary knowledge
COMPETENCES:
is aware of his knowledge and skills, understands the need for continuous training and professional development
- has the capacity to conduct legal discourse and to control the correctness of the reasoning of other people in the area of family law and related fields
- has the ability to provide legal advice in uncomplicated factual and legal situations in the field of family and guardianship law

Assessment criteria

Assessment methods and criteria:

1. Presence in class
2. Actively perform tasks such as solving case, finding and presenting a selected judgment, analysis of draft amendments to existing regulations, active participation in classes
3. Using the Moodle platform and implementing the course of the subject in the form of e-learning
4. Written test for assessment - test containing closed questions (single and multiple choice), open questions, case studies.

Practical placement

Not applicable.

Bibliography

1. T.Smyczyński, Prawo rodzinne i opiekuńcze , Wyd. C.H.Beck 2018
2. A.Zieliński, Prawo rodzinne i opiekuńcze w zarysie, Wyd. Wolters Kluwer, Warszawa 2011
3. M. Andrzejewski, Prawo rodzinne i opiekuńcze, Wyd. C.H.Beck 2014
Legal acts:
1. Ustawa z dnia 25 lutego 1964r. Kodeks rodzinny i opiekuńczy (Dz.U.2017.682 t.j.)
2. Ustawa z dnia 17 listopada 1964r. Kodeks postępowania cywilnego (Dz.U.2018.1360 t.j.)
3. Ustawa z dnia 24 kwietnia 1964r. Kodeks cywilny ( Dz.U.2018.1025 t.j. )
4. Ustawa z dnia 28 listopada 2014r. Prawo o aktach stanu cywilnego (Dz.U.2018.2224 t.j.)
5. Ustawa z dnia 7 września 2007r. o pomocy osobom uprawnionym do alimentów (Dz.U.2018.554 t.j.)
6. Ustawa z dnia 9 czerwca 2011r. o wspieraniu rodziny i systemie pieczy zastępczej (Dz.U.2018.998 t.j.)

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