Private Law
The Civil Code that will become effective on 1 January 2014 is a result of eleven years of work of the recodification committee of the Ministry of Justice. Together with the Commercial Corporations Act and the Private International Law Act it constitutes a complete recodification of the private law in the Czech Republic.
It brings new and modern regulation of relations governed by civil law, with emphasis on personality rights, free will (eg more choice when writing a will – no pun intended) or unified regulation of obligation laws.
The draft code has five parts. The first part is dedicated to a legal status of a person as an individual. The second regulates family law – eg the institute of marriage and the rights and obligations of husband and wife, parents and children. Although the Code does include registered partnership, it explicitly prohibits adoption to a person in a registered partnership. The rest in concerned mainly with property rights.
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