Family Law of Ukraine.

The Family Law of Ukraine regulates: 1. The Family Law of Ukraine defines foundations of marriage, personal non-property and property rights and duties of spouses, grounds of emergence, substance of personal non-property and property rights and duties of parents and children, adoptive parents and adoptive children and other family members and relatives. 2. Regulating family relationship is done with this Law in order to: - to consolidate a family as a social institution and a unity of the certain persons; - to affirm the feeling of duty as to parents, children and other members of the family; - to build family relationship on grounds of equality, feelings of mutual love and respect, mutual support; - to provide each child with family upbringing, opportunity of spiritual and physical development. Clause 2. Partners of family relationship that is regulated with the Family Law of Ukraine. The Family Law of Ukraine also regulates: family personal non-property and property relationship between spouses, between parents and children, adoptive parents and adoptive children, between mother and father of a child as to upbringing, development and support of a child.
Clause 7. General foundations of regulation of family relationship: 6. A women and a man have the equal rights and duties in family relationship; 7. A child has to be provided with opportunity to exercise his/her rights, established with Constitution of Ukraine, Convention of Rights of Child and other international legal acts, acknowledged in Ukraine; 8. Regulation of family relationship is executed in accordance with the best interests of children and incapable members of the family; 9. Family relationship is regulated on grounds of justice, scrupulosity, rationality, according to moral canons of the society; 10. Each participator of family relationship has the right for court protection. Clause 51 deals with Right of a wife and a husband for respect for their personality. Clause 52 deals with Right of a wife and a husband for physical and spiritual development. Clause 54. deals with Right of a wife and a husband for division of duties and joint solution of questions of family life. A wife and a husband have a right to divide duties between them in their family. All the important matters of the life of the family are settled by a wife and a husband on the ground of equality. Clause 63 establishes the exercise of right of spouses for joint ownership of property, such as: The husband and the wife have equal rights for ownership, use, order of property, which belongs to the family as of right for joint ownership if there is no separate agreement between the husband and the wife.