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In Ukraine, plans are afoot to completely abolish the current Family Code and transfer regulation of family law to the Civil Code. This was announced by Verkhovna Rada Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk, noting that all norms that sparked public resonance were removed from the draft.
Discussions about registered partnerships and constitutional bounds.
Separating the Family Code as a standalone part of law created significant problems for regulating private relations. Legislators now aim to return family law to the unified Civil Code, removing declarative norms and taking into account real judicial practice. Stefanchuk told this to reporters during a briefing, as reported by 24 Channel.
According to him, separate family codes are characteristic mainly of post-Soviet bloc countries, while in most developed states family relations are part of a general private codification.
It is believed that the family is the cornerstone of privacy, so there is no need to single it out. In the draft of the new Civil Code, which MPs still have to approve, the current Family Code norms have been adjusted in line with established judicial practice.
All of this declaration was removed and a real mechanism was introduced, which was implemented into the Civil Code. We conducted a lot of iterations with media lawyers. I convinced some of them, and they agreed. Some of them pointed out certain things from their practice,
— Stefanchuk noted.
As journalists from Suspilne wrote, the biggest discussions during the preparation of the bill arose around the issue of legalizing same-sex marriages and registered partnerships.
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According to the speaker, LGBTQ+ representatives did everything possible to push through the relevant provision, but the key barrier was Article 51 of the Constitution of Ukraine, which cannot be amended during martial law. In the norms on the family, it is established that marriage is based on the free consent of a woman and a man. At present, a same-sex couple can be partners, but legally it is not possible to grant them marriage status.
Ruslan Stefanchuk agreed that some norms requested by LGBTQ+ representatives could be simplified.
At the same time, other triggers that worried society were removed from the Civil Code draft. Which proposals exactly is unknown.
Recall that 28 in April, MPs approved as a basis the draft of the new Civil Code of Ukraine, which consists of 9 books and comprehensively updates the main norms of private law. The new Civil Code provides for significant changes, including updates to the principle of banning contradictory conduct, expansion of personal rights, and the legal regime of joint property of spouses.
At the same time, the European Commission previously emphasized the need to recognize same-sex marriages in Ukraine, as such practice aligns with EU human rights standards.
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