Theoretical and Law Enforcement Aspects of Deprivation and Restriction of Parental Rights

The issues concerning delimitation of the grounds and conditions for the restriction and deprivation of parental rights are very relevant both at the doctrinal and practical levels. Difficulties in choosing a measure of family law protection are demonstrated by examples from judicial practice. The paper analyzes a law enforcement issue regarding the difficulty of identifying and taking into account a difficult life situation (a combination of difficult circumstances) in which a parent finds himself or herself. A difficult life situation excludes wrongful dangerous parental conduct. However, the courts cannot take it into account in the event of a claim for deprivation of parental rights, since the courts are not entitled to go beyond the stated requirements in this category of cases. The author comes to the conclusion that it is necessary to give the court the right to go beyond the claims initiated by the claimant to make a decision on the deprivation of parental rights, if a claim is filed to restrict parental rights and the court finds grounds for deprivation of parental rights. The court should also be empowered to make decisions in unasserted claims in the opposite situation, when the claimant demands to deprive the defendant of parental rights due to the danger of the child being in a parental environment, but the court has not found grounds for depriving of parental rights.