The law on children protection and promotion of children's rights, promulgated

On Tuesday, President Klaus Iohannis promulgated the law on the protection and promotion of children's rights and introduces the definition of parental alienation.

According to the explanatory, the legislative approach aims at defining the notion of parental alienation, establishing the ways in which it can be ascertained, the legal effects of establishing the existence of parental alienation, measures will be instituted in the context of the increase in the number of legal disputes between parents regarding the exercise in common parental authority, regarding the manner of maintaining the personal relations between the children and the parent with whom they do not live constantly, as well as regarding the establishment of the manner in which each of the parents will contribute to the child's upbringing and education related expenses.

"Parental alienation - form of psychological violence by which one of the parents, intentionally, in a continuous or assumed manner, generates, accepts or uses a situation in which the child ends up showing unjustified or disproportionate restraint or hostility towards any of the parents. Parent/person who alienates - the parent/person who is responsible/responsible for the existence of a situation of parental alienation. Alienated parent - the parent towards whom the child shows unjustified or disproportionate restraint", the text of the law states.

According to it, children have the right to protection and assistance in realizing and fully exercising their rights.

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