Court Practice in Family Disputes: Problems of Discretion on the Verge of Law-Making
https://doi.org/10.17803/1729-5920.2019.150.5.040-048
Abstract
The article is devoted to the analysis of the problems connected with the law-making function of court practice in family disputes. The history of this function, which is not one of the classic types of judicial activity, has several factors: paticularities of family legal relations, situational nature of the majority of family law norms as a key prerequisite for broad judicial discretion in its various forms — concretization, interpretation, subsidiary application of the legislation, application of analogy, conflict resolution that in some cases can be qualified as legal stances of normative type. As an illustration, the provisions of a number of current rulings of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on family matters are offered.
It is noted that the purpose of the rule-making approaches applied in the court practice involve primarily considerations of fairness in relation to expediency. At the same time, firstly, the criteria for choosing situations for the formation of a trend towards a fair resolution of family disputes of a certain category are not quite clear; secondly, the legal approaches under consideration do not exclude a direct conflict with the family law; thirdly, they remain in the status of recommendations for decades instead of being modified within a reasonable time and transformed into an improved family legislation.
The author associates himself with the scholars who consider it necessary, if judicial law-making is inevitable, to regulate its grounds, criteria and procedure directly via civil procedural and/or other laws.
About the Author
N. N. Tarusina
Demidov Yaroslavl State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Tarusina Nadezhda Nikolaevna, PhD in Law, Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Law, Head of the Department of Social and Family Legislation of the Demidov Yaroslavl State University, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation
150003, Russia, Yaroslavl, ul. Sovetskaya, d. 14
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Tarusina N.N. Court Practice in Family Disputes: Problems of Discretion on the Verge of Law-Making. Lex Russica. 2019;(5):40-48. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.17803/1729-5920.2019.150.5.040-048
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