Adoption (Successful Unification of Adoption Law in Interwar Czechoslovakia)

The study analyses the Hungarian and Austrian adoption laws that inspired lawmakers of Czechoslovak Act No. 56 1928 Coll. As laws, on Adoption recognised as a contract to ensure an heir. It advocated compliance with principle adoptio naturam imitatur. Therefore, it helped improve social legal position abandoned neglected children. For lawmakers, primary inspiration source was General Civil Code (ABGB). Nonetheless, several provisions ABGB were identical customary law, court practice, office practice. Adopters had be childless, older than forty years age, minimum eighteen adoptees. Married persons could adopt only consent their spouses (in this, influence strongest). Contrary ABGB, but under possibility for man his illegitimate biological child. possible majors limitation contractual relationship. established relation between adopter adoptee, while relationships adoptee birth family continued. instance, if failed in duty aliment father supportive obligation pay alimony. main goal process produce this reason, we can conclude interests adopters prevailed over changed radically after 1949, most important has become best interest