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Family and Inheritance Law
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:9.00
Study Course Accepted:10.04.2024 14:17:14
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | JF_386 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Law | Target Audience: | Juridical Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Inga Kudeikina | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 8 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 16 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 2 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 4 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 20 | ||||||||
| Part-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 4 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 8 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 1 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 2 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 10 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Introduction to law and civil law. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To provide students with a thorough knowledge of family and inheritance law, the role thereof in ensuring private and personal rights, to develop the ability to look at the family and inheritance law in the context of the legal system, to identify problems, including oppositions of practice and theory, and to offer legal solutions thereto, and to provide theoretical insight and skills of practical application of legal provisions. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Family law – characteristics and sources. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Marriage. Conclusion of marriage, rights and obligations of spouses. Termination of marriage. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Property relations of spouses. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Legal relations between parents and children. Guardianship and custody. Records of civil status. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Issues in the regulatory framework of family. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Inheritance law – characteristics and sources. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Types of inheritance. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Opening of a succession and protection of estate. Acceptance and acquisition of inheritance. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Conducting inheritance matters. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Issues in inheritance law. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Topic Layout (Part-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Family law – characteristics and sources. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Marriage. Conclusion of marriage, rights and obligations of spouses. Termination of marriage. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Property relations of spouses. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Legal relations between parents and children. Guardianship and custody. Records of civil status. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Issues in the regulatory framework of family. | Classes | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Inheritance law – characteristics and sources. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Types of inheritance. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Opening of a succession and protection of estate. Acceptance and acquisition of inheritance. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Conducting inheritance matters. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Issues in inheritance law. | Classes | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Independent work consists of studying academic and scientific literature, analysis of legislation and case law. Writing reflections on court judgements on topical family and inheritance law issues, preparation of procedural documents in family and inheritance law. In order to evaluate the quality of the study course as a whole, the student must fill out the study course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | The final assessment is constituted by a reflection on family law (10%), a reflection on inheritance law (10%), preparation of a procedural document in family law (15%), preparation of a procedural document in inheritance law (15%) and the examination grade (50%). When assessing independent work, completeness of meeting the requirements, quality of reasoning, correspondence of the expression style to the requirements of grammar and professional legal language are taken into account. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | In-depth understanding of family and inheritance law institutions (engagement, marriage, spouses’ personal and property relations, relations between family members, parents and children and property relations, adoption, guardianship, custody, kinship, documents of civil status, paternity, inheritance, acceptance thereof, testamentary and legal inheritance, classes of heirs, wills, inheritance agreements), ability to define the substance and content thereof, understanding the process of divorce proceedings, the administration of inheritance matters, understanding of the operation and significance of the custody court in the personal and property relations of parents and children. | ||||||||
| Skills: | To apply relevant legal provisions in solving specific legal situations, prepare procedural documents of family and inheritance law, analyse problems and provide an independent, motivated assessment thereof, offer a solution to the situation, using the latest trends and insights. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | To apply the knowledge and skills in professional activities, apply legal methods for solving problems related to family and inheritance law systematically and rationally, constantly improving one’s qualification, analyse legal information (processing of legal information), identify problems, being able to offer adequate solutions, present one’s opinion, participate in discussions. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Civillikums. Pirmā daļa. Ģimenes tiesības. Publicēts: "Ziņotājs", 22, 10.06.1993., "Valdības Vēstnesis", 41, 20.02.1937. | ||||||||
| 2 | Latvijas Republikas Satversmes 8. nodaļa Cilvēka pamattiesības. Publicēts: "Latvijas Vēstnesis", 43, 01.07.1993., "Ziņotājs", 6, 31.03.1994. | ||||||||
| 3 | Notariāta likums. Publicēts: Latvijas Vēstnesis, Nr.48, 09.07.1993. | ||||||||
| 4 | Bāriņtiesu likums. Publicēts: Latvijas Vēstnesis, Nr.107, 07.07.2006. | ||||||||
| 5 | Civillikums. Otrā daļa. Mantojuma tiesības. Publicēts: Valdības Vēstnesis, Nr.42, 22.02.1937. | ||||||||
| 6 | MK noteikumi Nr.618 “Noteikumi par mantojuma reģistra un mantojuma lietu vešanu”. Publicēts: "Latvijas Vēstnesis", 130 (3914), 22.08.2008. | ||||||||
| 7 | Kalniņš E. ''Privāttiesību teorija un prakse''. Rīga: Tiesu namu aģentūra, 2005 (5.-137.lpp.) | ||||||||
| 8 | Z.Gencs. Mantošana. Zinātniski praktisks kometārs. Rīga: TNA, 2002. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Krūmiņš J. “Tiesu prakse strīdos par laulāto mantas dalīšanu”. Latvijas Vēstnesis, pielikums Jurista Vārds. 2004. 24.februāris, Nr.7 (312). | ||||||||
| 2 | Briedis E. Par nekustamo īpašumu kā laulātā atsevišķo mantu. Latvijas Vēstnesis. 21.05.2002.Nr.75 | ||||||||
| 3 | Kudeikina, I. Laulības noslēgšanas institucionālās piekritības problēmas. RSU 2015.gada Zinātniskās konferences tēzes (Rīga, 2015.g. 26.-27.martā) | ||||||||
| 4 | Z.Gencs. Civillikuma komantāri. Otrā daļa. Mantojuma tiesības (655.-840.pants). Rīga: TNA, 2012. | ||||||||
| 5 | I.Rozentāls. Testamenta izpildītājs. Rīga, 1940. | ||||||||
| 6 | A.Švemberga. Mantojuma prasība. Jurista Vārds, Nr.283/284., 2003. | ||||||||
| 7 | V.Briedis. Mantojuma pieņemšana un atraidīšana. Rīga, 1939. | ||||||||
| 8 | Kudeikina, I., Ābelis K. Lēmumu par aizgādnības nodibināšanu mantojumam administratīvi tiesiskās kolīzijas. Daugavpils Universitātes Akadēmiskais apgāds "Saule", 2017 | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | www.at.gov.lv | ||||||||
| 2 | www.satv.tiesa.lv | ||||||||
| 3 | www.manas.tiesas.lv | ||||||||
| 4 | www.latvijasnotars.lv | ||||||||
