Children have in accordance to international and national law special protection. We need to accept them as equal subjects in every family law procedures. It is therefore emphasized that the right to contact is the primary right of the child, that is why we speak about child's contacts.
Child has whenever he is separate from one or both parents, right to personal relations and direct contact with both parents on a regular basis, in accordance to basic guide child's best interests. Child has also right to contact with other persons, if they are emotionally connected and when the contacts are in child's best interests.
Foster care is one of the situations where the state provides for alternative care for a child when he temporarily can not live in his family. During this period, contacts are the important factor that keeps the child in a certain relationship with their parents. About execution of contacts they try to agree on it in individual project group, if the contacts are in child's best interests. Also important duty of foster parent is to encourage contacts and to prepare child for them. The child also has the right to express his opinion about the situation, which will be taken into account if this is in child's best interests.
Jurisdiction about contacts has the court, which can contacts also restricted or withdrawn, when a child is threathened. It is a big intervention in right to contacts of parents and especially child, which is why we need to take care of the principle of proportional intervention. It is possible contacts under the control, when they are necessary because of threats childs or when the parent and child again try to establish relationship because of long time disconnection.
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