Children are the most vulnerable part of our society. Therefore, it is important that the primary concern of Slovenian legislation is the protection of their rights and interests. If children's rights and obligations do not clash with those of others, the state cannot interfere. However, because there are many conflicts in family relations, the state needs to consider and establish a balance between children's rights and obligations and the rights and obligations of others. The legal standard of children's interests is of key importance here, because it represents the goal towards which we strive when the conflict occurs. The thesis presents how children and the protection of their interests are regulated in the new arrangement of measures for the protection of children’s interests that was accepted in the Family Code on April 15th 2017. The Family Code will become effective on April 15th 2019 and will replace the Marriage and Family Relations Act which already strived towards modernised arrangements in the family sphere. However, before the passing of the new law, relations were arranged in litigation, contentious and administrative proceedings. As a result, children’s interests were not always effectively protected. The passing of the Family Code shows improvement in comparison to the previously sprawling arrangement, because we now have an ordered, unified and systematic legislation concerning measures for the protection of children’s interests.
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