- Determination of Parenthood The topic of my thesis is Determination of Parenthood. With this topic are connected problems not only legal, but often also social and ethical. Parenthood affects all of us and it's an important aspect of human life. That's why there should be legal assurance in relationship between parent and child. Development in the field of medicine is still ahead (mainly thanks to methods of assisted reproduction and DNA analysis) and the rules of law should respond and deal with it. The aim of this thesis is describe and become acquainted with problematics of determination of parenthood, valorize how legislation responds to modern development and to propose possible changes. Thesis is prepared on the basis of existing legislation on the date of submission of the thesis. Thesis is divided into seven main chapters, which are divided to further subsections. First chapter deals with concept of parenthood and methods of determination. Second chapter describes historical development of legislation on Czech territory, since Roman law to recodification of civil law. Related third chapter concisely summarizes national and international legal sources of current legislation. Chapter four is about determination of maternity and problems of surrogacy, anonymous childbirth, concealed birth...

La famille du XXIème siècle, héritière d’un idéal défini d’abord par l’Église puis par le Code civil, est née des bouleversements sans précédent qu’a connu la société dans son ensemble. Pendant des siècles, le rôle essentiel de la famille était lié à la transmission patrimoniale et culturelle entre générations. Aujourd’hui, la famille doit favoriser le développement individuel et la réalisation personnelle de chacun de ses membres. La famille est de moins en moins une institution normée, aux formes et aux codes prédéfinis, d’autant qu’elle doit composer avec le droit individuel à « une vie familiale normale » que consacre l’article 8 de la Convention européenne des droits de l’homme. L’influence des droits fondamentaux qui sont par nature des droits individuels dans la vie familiale confirme bien que la famille est davantage le lieu d’épanouissement individuel qu’une entité tournée vers un intérêt commun. Tout ou presque est devenu possible en termes de combinaisons familiales. On peut désormais choisir son sexe (transsexualisme), décider de créer une famille ou de vivre seul sans que la société ne s’en émeuve particulièrement.Les liens et les rôles de chacun dans la famille ne sont plus ni pérennes ni clairement définis. Les progrès scientifiques (qui ont surtout permis une contraception efficace) et la révolution sexuelle ont complètement transformé la sexualité, la vie de couple et la procréation. Il n’y a plus un seul modèle de couple fondé exclusivement sur le mariage d’un homme et d’une femme. Le couple est maintenant homosexuel ou hétérosexuel, libre de vivre ou non ensemble, d’être fidèle, de se marier, de se séparer, de conclure un pacs, de vivre en concubinage. La conjugalité est donc désormais plurielle et repose sur l’égalité entre ceux qui composent le couple et entre les différents modèles de couples possibles. Les relations entre les parents et les enfants ont également été bouleversées. La parentalité s’impose peu à peu à côté de la parenté. La filiation va devoir composer avec les nouvelles cuisines procréatives. La procréation médicalement assistée, la gestation pour autrui ou l’utérus artificiel doivent modifier l’établissement du lien de filiation qui ne peut se déduire du seul lien biologique. Le droit devra répondre, parfois contraint sous l’influence ou la pression internationale, aux nouvelles aspirations sociales et sociologiques et tenter de trouver un équilibre entre la liberté individuelle et la dimension institutionnelle de la famille. / While it was initially born out of the ideals set out first by the Church and then by the Civil Code, family in the 21st century is really the offspring of the unprecedented upheavals that have shaken society as a whole. For centuries, the essential role of family was linked with cross-generational patrimonial and cultural transmission. Nowadays, family must instead facilitate the individual development and self-realization of every single one of its members. The family is an institution that is decreasingly bounded by predetermined norms, forms, and codes, not least because it must align itself to the individual right to a “normal family-life”, to which Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights is dedicated. More or less everything is now possible in terms of family make-up. One can now choose one’s legal sex/gender (transgenderism), decide to establish a family, or live alone, without society being particularly affected by any of it. The ties and roles of each individual in the family are no longer perennial, no clearly defined. Scientific progress (through which efficient contraception became available) and the sexual revolution have completely transformed sexuality, romantic relationships, and procreation. There is no longer a single model for the romantic relationship, based on the marriage of a man to a woman. The couple is now homosexual or heterosexual, and individuals may choose whether they want to live together or be faithful. They can also choose if and when to get married, to separate, to be joined in a civil union (pacs), or to simply live under the same rooftop. In other words, conjugality is now pluralistic and rests on the equality both of the individuals constituting the couple, and between different models of romantic relationships. Relationships between parents and children have also been completely changed. Parenting is gradually gaining on kinship. Filiation will soon be forced to reckon with the different procreational recipes. Various assisted reproductive technologies, including artificial insemination, surrogacy, and the artificial uterus must change the ways in which kinship is established since it can no longer simply be deduced from biological ties. The law will have to respond to new social and sociological aspirations, and will sometimes even have to do so under international influence or pressure. It will, in fact, have to find a new equilibrium between individual freedoms, and the institutional dimensions of the family.

Syftet med denna studie är att utforska och förstå de sätt på vilka manliga samkönade föräldrapar pratar om de kvinnor som varit delaktiga vid barnens tillblivelse. De manliga samkönade föräldraparens berättelser rör dels kvinnan som burit barnet, dels kvinnan som donerat ägg. Denna studie består av nio intervjuer, varav sju involverar båda papporna och två intervjuer involverar ena pappan. Reproduktionsstrategi skiljer sig något åt, men en majoritet av paren har fått barn via värdgraviditet samt äggdonation. Materialet har samlats in via semistrukturerad intervju och analyserats med hjälp av diskursanalys.Resultatet visar att de manliga samkönade föräldraparen använder olika tolkningsrepertoarer då de pratar om bäraren och donatorn. En tolkningsrepertoar som uppkommer när deltagarna pratar om bäraren är bäraren som en nära släkting, men inte en mamma, där det blir synligt att deltagarna behöver förhålla sig till diskurser kring föräldraskap, moderskap och omsorg. En annan tolkningsrepertoar är bäraren som aktiv och självständig och därför inte utsatt, där deltagarna förhåller sig till diskurser kring värdgraviditet och bäraren som en utsatt kvinna. I deltagarnas berättelser om donatorn framkommer tolkningsrepertoaren donatorn som nära kontra avlägsen där deltagarna förhandlar kring hur nära relation de vill ha till donatorn samt tolkningsrepertoaren om donatorn som en betydelsefull individ kontra en instrumentell gengivare där deltagarna behöver förhålla sig till processen med att välja en äggdonator och huruvida man väljer en individ eller ett ursprung.

[pt] O tema central da tese é o contrato de gestação de substituição. Sua análise está delimitada aos efeitos decorrentes da consideração do seu objeto, se lícito ou ilícito, à luz das regras de direito constitucional e civil do ordenamento brasileiro. O marco teórico é delineado pelas obras de Francisco Cavalcanti Pontes de Miranda – notadamente as noções acerca dos planos do negócio jurídico – e Marcel Mauss – especificamente o Ensaio sobre a dádiva – e a escola de Direito Civil Constitucional – a partir da qual se construiu a análise das categorias que permeiam todo o estudo: dignidade da pessoa humana, autonomia privada e dicotomia entre coisa e pessoa. O objetivo geral foi investigar se o objeto do contrato de gestação de substituição suportaria o conceito de licitude à luz do sistema jurídico de regras e de princípios constitucionais. Consequentemente, três objetivos específicos foram traçados. O primeiro delimitou conceitualmente os termos objeto, licitude e ilicitude na doutrina e na jurisprudência brasileira e constatou que esses conceitos carregam um conteúdo que deve ser adequado com vistas a comportar a nova categoria de contrato – que incorpora aspectos patrimoniais e extrapatrimoniais. O segundo, ao investigar se tais contratos são levados à apreciação do Poder Judiciário, constatou ser afirmativa a indagação. Entretanto, expôs-se que a avaliação feita pelo Poder Judiciário se limita ao reconhecimento ou não da filiação. O terceiro objetivo específico identificou que o Poder Judiciário tem considerado o objeto do contrato de gestação de substituição como lícito, pois se baseia nas diretrizes estabelecidas pela Resolução n. 2.121/2015 do Conselho Federal de Medicina acerca da gestação de substituição gratuita. Diante da situação fática, constatou-se a relativização de conceitos delimitados pela regra jurídica para se alcançar esta ou aquela solução para casos delicados. Nenhuma outra consideração acerca da licitude ou ilicitude do objeto contratual pôde ser estabelecida diante dos casos analisados. / [en] The central theme of the thesis is gestational surrogacy contract. Theanalysis is bounded to the effects arising from the consideration of its object, whether lawful or unlawful according to the rules of constitutional and civil lawof the Brazilian legal system. The theoretical framework is outlined by the works of Francisco Cavalcanti Pontes de Miranda - especially the notions about the legal business plans - and Marcel Mauss - specifically the Essay on the gift - and the school of Constitutional Civil Law - from which it has built an analysis of categories that permeate the whole study: human dignity, personal autonomy and dichotomy between thing and person. The overall objective was to investigate whether the object gestational surrogacy contract would support the concept of legality according to the legal system and constitutional principles. As a result, three specific objectives were outlined. The first conceptually delimited the terms object, legality and illegality in doctrine and Brazilian jurisprudence and found that these concepts carry content that must be appropriate in order to support this new contract category - which incorporates patrimonial and non patrimonial rights. The second, while investigating whether such agreements are taken into account by the Judiciary, it was found an affirmative answer. However, it exposed that the analysis made by the judiciary is limited to the recognition of legitimate filiation. The third specific objective identified that the judiciary has considered the object of gestational surrogacy agreement as lawful contract because it is based on guidelines established by Resolution n. 2.121/2015 of Federal Council of Medicine about the altruistic surrogacy. On the factual situation, there was noted the relativism of concepts delimited by the legal rule in order to be put into perspective of delicate cases. No further consideration about the legality of contractual object could be established before the analysed cases.

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L'assistance médicale bouleverse les données de la procréation humaine. La gestation pour autrui, la procréation médicalement assistée en faveur des couples de même sexe ou effectuée post mortem changent radicalement la conception de la filiation. La dimension transfrontalière du phénomène suscite des difficultés, notamment s'agissant de la reconnaissance de liens de filiation créés à l'étranger. L'étude des législations étrangères libérales ainsi que de la jurisprudence relative à la circulation des filiations révèle un certain recul de la règle de conflit en matière de filiation. La méthode de la reconnaissance ne semble pas non plus à même de faciliter considérablement la reconnaissance des liens de filiation établis à l'étranger. Néanmoins, la protection de la vie familiale constitue un fondement commun aux États européens en faveur de cette reconnaissance. La reconnaissance peut d'ailleurs être promue par l'adoption d'une règle matérielle de droit international privé et par le renforcement de la motivation dans la mise en œuvre du mécanisme de l'ordre public international. Un tel renforcement, combiné avec l'influence du droit européen sur la circulation du statut personnel permettrait de mieux satisfaire les objectifs de sécurité juridique et de prévisibilité. En définitive, la lutte contre les risques posés par une assistance médicale à la procréation à caractère international requiert l'adoption des règles matérielles aussi bien au niveau national qu'au niveau international et une meilleure coopération entre États-membres de l'Union européenne. / Medically assisted reproduction radically affects human reproduction. Surrogacy, artificial reproduction technologies for same-sex couples, or which take place post mortem, profoundly change our concept of parentage. The cross-border dimension of this phenomenon provokes difficulties especially with respect to the recognition of parentage relationships that have been established in countries that authorise the aforementioned techniques. The study foreign liberal legislation, as well as of the case law on the circulation of legal parent-child relationships indicates that the conflict-of-laws rules on parentage becomes less significant. The method of recognition does not seem either able to facilitate considerably the recognition of parentage bonds that have been established in a foreign country. Nonetheless, the protection of family life constitutes a legal basis common in European states that can be invoked in favour of such recognition. Such recognition can furthermore be promoted by adopting a private international law rule of substantive nature and by strengthening the reasoning behind the recourse to the public policy exception mechanism this reinforcement of the reasoning and the influence of European law on the circulation of personal status can promote legal certainty and foreseeability. Finally, efficient solutions to cater for the risks inherent in cross­border access to assisted reproduction necessitates the adoption of rules substantial nature both in national and in international level and a better cooperation among member states of the European Union.

(Abstract) The diploma thesis deals with the reflection of the right to know one's own origin in the Czech legal order. Knowledge of one's own origin and the right to know one's own origin constitute not only a legal but also a moral and ethical question. The right to know one's own origin (i.e. the right to know one's parents, one's biological family and one's ancestors) is one of the subjective human rights, which belongs to every natural person. This right is more or less reflected in majority of institutes of family law. The thesis analyses the most important of them and indicates how the right to know one's own origin is reflected in these institutes or it is not, although it should be. The work seeks to highlight possible shortcomings of the legislation and tries to propose possible solutions de lege ferenda. There are also stated (for the purposes of comparison) some examples of foreign legislation in cases of some legal institutes. The diploma thesis is based on the legislation effective on the 26th March 2016. It is composed of an introduction, five chapters and a conclusion. The first chapter deals with the right to know one's own origin and its legal regulation in the Czech Republic. It mainly discusses the international conventions that are (in compliance with the Art. 10 of the...

Abstract, Keywords The thesis concerns itself with the analysis of Czech legislation currently in effect with respect to the right to know one's origin. Discussed are the contents of this right, the legislation's addressees, Article 7 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child including the reservations to it made by the Czech Republic. The affected Czech regulations and their reforms are also talked about. Attention is also given to the issue of determining one's parentage. The bulk of the thesis is made up of analyzing the issues of assisted reproduction, surrogacy, adoption, anonymized and confidential childbirths, and baby boxes in regard to protecting the right to know one's origin. The thesis aims to critically evaluate current legislation, point out its shortcomings and suggest possible future development as the right to know one's origin isn't currently being given enough attention. Some of the aforementioned institutes aren't set out in law at all, others give preference to the anonymity of the child's biological parents. Adoption has recently seen some positive development with the recodification of the civil law, however even this is an area that leaves a lot to be desired as there still are certain faults and deficiencies of the legislation. Keywords: Right to know one's origin, assisted...

The Convention on the rights of the child (CRC) stipulates a set of rights for all children and declares that all national legislation should be in compliance with the convention. The CRC states that the best interests of the child shall be of primary consideration in all actions concerning children; that every child has the right to protection of their family relations as well as the right to know about its parents. The purpose of this study is to investigate how well does the Swedish regulation of establishing legal parenthood comply with the child’s family oriented rights stipulated by the CRC. The study uses a critical legal dogmatic method and is analysed from a theory of the best interests of the child principle. The result shows that the Swedish law strongly protects the child’s right to know about his/her genetic origin. However, the findings illustrate that the mentioned right is often seen as synonymous for what is best for the child, and therefore leaves no space for questioning other aspects that may affect the child’s well-being. Furthermore the results demonstrate that the Swedish family law mainly protects hetero normative families where none of the parents has changed their legal gender. The further away from this norm that the child’s family is, the more complicated it is to establish legal parenthood and therefor harder to protect the child’s right to its family relations. The paper argues that the Swedish family law hence leaves little space for what could be seen as the best interest of a specific child in a specific context, and by doing so diverges from the CRC which advocates contextually when analysing what is best for the child. The paper concludes that a more flexible law where the best interests of the child can be taken into account in greater extent could secure the rights of the child more effectively.

La notion de filiation renvoie au lien familial entre un parent et un enfant, lien qui ancre l'individu dans une lignée généalogique et permet de l'identifier par rapport aux membres de sa famille. Notion universelle, il a semblé pertinent d'examiner comment deux systèmes juridiques distincts, tels que ceux de droit civil et de common law, l'appréhendaient. Évoquant intuitivement un lien génétique entre le parent et l'enfant, la notion de filiation pourrait se réduire à cette dimension purement physique. Pourtant, le droit tient compte du fait qu'elle recouvre d'autres réalités, sociales et affectives, révélant ainsi une notion plus complexe. Entre la réalité génétique, devenue accessible grâce aux progrès de la science, et la volonté, employée pour fonder toutes les fictions juridiques telles que l'adoption, la procréation médicalement assistée et la gestation pour autrui, une tension est née. Le droit s'efforce de trouver un équilibre entre ces fondements grâce à la nouvelle« boussole » qu'est l'intérêt de l'enfant ainsi que grâce au cadre éprouvé de l'ordre public. L'étude comparée des droits français et anglais a permis également d'observer une dissociation croissante entre la notion et son régime, le régime pouvant être attribué indépendamment de l'existence juridique du lien. Cette dissociation en a révélé une autre, aux contours plus précis encore, entre le statut, c'est-à-dire le lien de droit initial auquel est attaché le régime, et le rôle, c'est-à-dire le comportement de fait qui se verra attribuer tout ou partie du régime de la filiation. C'est ensuite autour de l'exercice effectif de ce rôle que se réagrège une grande partie des effets de la filiation, interrogeant par conséquent la notion sur sa capacité à rendre compte des évolutions du droit de la famille. / The notion of “filiation” refers to the family relationship between a parent and a child, which place each on ein a family lineage and identify him from the members of his family. Because of its universality, it seemed appropriate to examine how two different legal systems, such as those of civil law and common law , understood it. Referring intuitively to a genetic link between parent and child, the notion of “filiation” could be, at first sight, reduced to a physical aspect. However, the law recognizes that it covers other realities like social and emotional ones. Thus, it reveals a more complex concept. In recent years, a tension appeared between genetic reality, which became available thanks to advances in science, and will, used to base alllegal fictions such as adoption, assisted reproduction and surrogacy. The law seeks to check and balancethese foundations with the child's welfare and public policy.The comparative study of French and English law also revealed a growing dissociation between the notion and its effects. Indeed, the effects can be assigned independently of the legal existence of the link. This dissociation has revealed a more precise one between the status, that is to say the initial link which isattached the effects, and the role, that is to say, the behavior which will receive all or part of the effects of filiation. Then, the effective exercise of this role can re-aggregate the effects of filiation. Thus, it is questioning the notion on its ability to account for changes in the family law .