Objectives and competences
Študent osvoji poglobljeno poznavanje in razumevanje inštitutov družinskega in dednega prava. znanje s področja družinskega in dednega prava. Razvijejo sposobnost analize zakonodaje, sodne prakse in standardov ter uporabo pridobljenega znanja pri reševanju konkretnih primerov.
Content (Syllabus outline)
· Basic Terminology of Family law.
· Family in digital age.
· Intergenerational justice and sustainability
• Marriage: formalities, void marriages, legal consequences of marriage, ending ...
· Cohabitation.
· Digital assest of spouses.
· Relations between parents and children: establishing parentage, presumption of paternity and maternity, acknowledgement of paternity and maternity, establishing of paternity and maternity, paternity and maternity of child, conceived with biomedical assistance, chalenging of paternity and maternity.
· Digital rights of children.
• Adoption.
· Rights, obligations and duties of parents and children.
• Foster Care.
• Guardianship: for children, for adults, for special cases.
· Family planning and biomedically assisted reproduction.
· The impact of climate change on n family law.
• Basics of international family law
• Terminology and basic principles of succession law.
• Conditions for the opening of succession.
· Definition of estate, including the digital assests
• Speciality of enterprising property, participation in commercial companies and denationalizationed property.
• Exclusion of certain property from estate due to the descendant's contributions to increase the decedent's property during common living, exclusion of received social help.
• Intestate succession: parentel-linear system with representation, order of succession, succession of single categories of heirs, ius representationis, accretion.
• Compulsory portion, circle of compulsory heirs, calculation of compulsory portion, eliminating the deprivation of the compulsory heir, disinheritance, Incalculation of gifts and bequests into succession portion.
• Testamentary Succession: The conditions for a valid will, different types of wills, content of a will, explanation, preserving, and reconstruction of a will.
· Succession law contracts
• The estate without heirs.
• The system of acquisition: hereditary statements, hereditary transmission.
• The curator of the estate.
• Hereditary community.
• Liability for deceden's debts.
• Death certificate and security of the estate.
• The role of notary in regulation of the succession.
• Separatio bonorum.
• Relation between probate and civil trial procedure.
· Jurisdiction for probate proceedings.
· Civil trial as the correctional remedy.
· Fundamental characteristics of succession of agricultural economies (farms), including the sustainable development.
Learning and teaching methods
• lectures,
• seminars,
• tutorials. Part of the tutorial is in a classroom while the rest is in the form of e-learning (e-tutorials may be given via video-conferencing or with the help of specially designed e-material in a virtual electronic learning environment),
• individual work,
• group work,
• case study.,
• role play.
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
Knowledge and understanding:
· The student will know, understand and will be able to apply in everyday working practice the knowledge of family law,
· The student will be able to solve legal problems the subject field with using of relevant legal sources and case-law.
Transferable/Key Skills and other attributes:
· Ability for professional communication
· Skill in argumentation
· Ability to search for information
Ability to analyze and solve legal problems.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
Transferable/Key Skills and other attributes:
- Ability of solving legal problems by using relevant legal sources.
Readings
Temeljni literatura in viri / Readings:
• S. Kraljić (2019). Družinski zakonik s komentarjem (Maribor: PZ Založba).
• K. Drnovšek in S. Kraljić (2024). Praktikum za družinsko pravo. 2. izdaja (Maribor: PZ Založba).
• S. Kraljić in M. Čujović (ur.) 2025. Zakon o dedovanju s komentarjem (Maribor: Založba WD).
• S. Kraljić in K. Drnovšek (2024). Praktikum za dedno pravo. E-izdaja (Maribor: Univerzitetna založba UM).
Dodatna literatura
• S. Kraljić, U. Kežmah & M. Čujovič (2022). Zakon o nepravdnem postopku (ZNP-1) s komentarjem (Maribor: WD Založba).
• S. Kraljić & A. Križnik (2021). Pravni izzivi skrbništva (Maribor: WD Založba).
• S. Kraljić (2021). The right to know one’s origins in light of the legal regulations of adoption in Slovenia. Law, identity and values. 2021, vol. 1, no. 1, str. 99-113.
• K. Zupančič, V. Žnidaršič Skubic: Dedno pravo, Uradni list RS, Ljubljana 2007.
Prerequisits
Completed ongoing assignments are a prerequisite for taking the exam and form part of the exam assessment.
Additional information on implementation and assessment Coursework - 30 %,
written exam - 70 %.
