Legal and social implications of establishing paternity

• Yury Alexandrovich Svirin Universidad Financiera del Gobierno de la Federación Rusa, Moscú, Rusia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7616-2637
• Alla Andreevna Neznamova Universidad Estatal de Gestión, Moscú, Rusia. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7534-6327
• Mikhail Aleksandrovich Gorbunov Universidad Estatal de Administración, Moscú, Rusia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0376-1668
• Vitaliy Anatolevich Malcev Instituto de Derecho de la Universidad Rusa del Transporte (MIIT), Moscú, Rusia. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8340-8180
• Anastasiia Valeryevna Kudinova Academia de Trabajo y Relaciones Sociales, Moscú, Rusia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3526-0895

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7382864

Keywords: establishing paternity, establishing maternity, human reproduction

Abstract

Legal and social implications of establishing paternity

The establishment of paternity and maternity is not only of great legal importance, but also of great social importance. However, to date, there are gaps in Russian legislation in the legal regulation of the establishment of paternity and, in some cases, maternity. Some unresolved issues related to the origin of the child are resolved within the framework of the legal positions of various judicial instances, which further diversifies the various points of view on these issues since judicial practice is not homogeneous. The purpose of the study was to identify the problems of legal regulation of children’s origin, the establishment of paternity and maternity, and to investigate historical sources and judicial practice on the above issues. The topic was studied from the position of general scientific methods of cognition (systematic, theoretical, and historical analysis) and private scientific methods, such as comparative jurisprudence, logical, technical, and legal analysis, concretization, and interpretation. The history of the institution of paternity has been analyzed; the Russian legislation regulating the issues of children’s origin and the legal aspect of establishing paternity and maternity have been studied, as well as judicial practice. According to the results obtained, the authors have formulated doctrinal positions on this issue.

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