Maintenance between spouses, maintenance between former spouses, maintenance between civil partners Abstract The diploma thesis deals with maintenance between spouses during marriage and after divorce and maintenance between civil partners. The maintenance duty and right for maintenance is recently a discussed topic, particularly due to high divorce rate. It is not a novelty that a divorce of a marriage or termination of a civil partnership strongly influences all of the partaking not only emotionally, but also economically. Exactly in these cases, the law provides a protection to the economically weak members of a family in a form of maintenance institutes. The biggest attention is usually dedicated to the maintenance and support of a minor. The other kinds of maintenance are not mentioned very often. The aim of this work is to analyse current legal regulation of the above mentioned institutes in the Czech legal order and compare it to the already repealed Family Act. After the recent Civil Law recodification, most of the relevant provisions were integrated to The Civil Code. Nevertheless, its content was not fundamentally changed. The thesis is basically divided into four main parts. The first and the most important part deals with the substantive regulations of all the above mentioned institutes. It...