CHANGES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN’S RIGHTS AND PARENTAL CARE IN CROATIAN FAMILY LAW OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS

In the past decade, the institutes of parental care and children’s rights in Croatian Family law have undergone several changes. These changes began with the adoption of Family Act of 2014 and Family Act of 2015, which introduced the child’s right to in formed consent, non-contentious proceedings of mandatory counselling and family mediation, and the sole exercise of parental care in cases wher...