Features of Implementation of the Regulatory Function of Family Law Agreements

The paper analyzes the peculiarities of implementation of the regulatory function of family law agreements, identifies the factors influencing this process. The use of a functional approach in legal research is very traditional and justifiable because it allows to understand more about the meaning of a legal matter, to identify the essential characteristics (properties) of legal phenomena, as well as internal and external interrelations of the legal objects under consideration. The doctrine presents a functional analysis of agreements as a whole, provides scientific developments concerning certain contractual functions, as well as the functional characteristics of certain types and categories of agreements. However, a manifestation of a function may vary depending on the scope of application of the agreement, its legal nature, type, category and other parameters: some functions may be strongly expressed, and others demonstrate weaker manifistations. Such a balance shift in the system of functions of agreements acts as an expression of its direct instrumental nature.

The author concludes that the regulatory function is inherent in all family law agreements, the result of which is an individually-defined model of behavior of the parties, fixed by the terms of the family law agreements. The regulatory function manifistation in contracts depends on such interrelated factors as: 1) the balance between private and public components in certain contractual constructions in the are of family law (the greater the public nature in the contractual legal relationship, the stronger contractual freedom depends on regulatory prescriptions); (2) the degree of detail of the normative regulation of the contractal relationship, the existence of legal gaps or intentional non-interference of the legislator in the strictly personal private sphere of the family (the less detailed the relations between the parties to the family agreement are regulated by regulatory legal acts, the more manifested the regulatory function of family law agreement is).

family law agreement, functions of an agreement, regulatory function of an agreement, agreement on foster family, prenuptial agreement, alimination agreements, agreement on determination of the place of residence of the child, agreement on the procedure for the exercise of parental rights, surrogacy agreement

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