Luke, jag presumerar att jag är din fader - en analys av faderskapspresumtionens relevans idag
(2019) LAGF03 20192Department of Law
Faculty of Law
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Faderskapspresumtionen i 1 kap. 1 § föräldrabalken innebär att maken till en gift kvinna som föder ett barn automatiskt blir barnets fader. Samhället och sätten vi samlever och bildar familj på förändras ständigt, varför det finns anledning att undersöka om faderskapspresumtionen har spelat ut sin roll. I uppsatsen undersöks just detta och faderskapspresumtionen sätts i relation till sin samtid och de krav som barnkonventionens ställning som svensk lag och principen om barnets bästa ställer upp.
Fastställandet av en rättslig förälder är centralt eftersom det utpekar en person som är ansvarig för barnet och är en förutsättning för att många rättigheter som stadgas i barnkonventionen ska kunna uppfyllas. Historiskt sett har det varit... (More) - Faderskapspresumtionen i 1 kap. 1 § föräldrabalken innebär att maken till en gift kvinna som föder ett barn automatiskt blir barnets fader. Samhället och sätten vi samlever och bildar familj på förändras ständigt, varför det finns anledning att undersöka om faderskapspresumtionen har spelat ut sin roll. I uppsatsen undersöks just detta och faderskapspresumtionen sätts i relation till sin samtid och de krav som barnkonventionens ställning som svensk lag och principen om barnets bästa ställer upp.
Fastställandet av en rättslig förälder är centralt eftersom det utpekar en person som är ansvarig för barnet och är en förutsättning för att många rättigheter som stadgas i barnkonventionen ska kunna uppfyllas. Historiskt sett har det varit viktigt att skydda barn genom att utpeka en gift man som fader, eftersom barn förr exempelvis inte hade arvsrätt efter en ogift fader. Idag innebär det rättsliga föräldraskapet emellertid samma skyldigheter för gifta och ogifta föräldrar. Dessutom föds majoriteten av dagens barn till ogifta föräldrar. Relevansen av att idag knyta föräldraskapet till äktenskapet kan därmed ifrågasättas.
Vidare stadgar faderskapspresumtionen att det är äktenskapet mellan specifikt man och kvinna som faderskapet är en rättsverkning av. Det finns ingen motsvarande presumtionsregel för samkönade äktenskap och om modern är gift med en kvinna måste denna kvinnan alltså genomgå en föräldraskapsutredning. Detta innebär en särbehandling av aspirerande rättsliga föräldrar i samkönade äktenskap och av deras barn, som inte ligger i linje med barnets bästa. Detta får, tillsammans med äktenskapets minskade betydelse, faderskapspresumtionens historiskt stadiga roll att vackla. (Less) - Abstract
- The presumption of parenthood under Chapter 1, Section 1 of the Children and Parents Code provides that fatherhood is presumed for a man who is married to a child’s mother. Society, cohabitation forms and the ways in which families are created are constantly changing, which raises the question of the pertinency of the presumption of parenthood. This is analyzed in the thesis and the provision is put in relation to our time and the implications of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child’s status as Swedish law.
The determination of a legal parent is crucial because it designates a person who is responsible for the child and is a prerequisite for many rights enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the rights of the... (More) - The presumption of parenthood under Chapter 1, Section 1 of the Children and Parents Code provides that fatherhood is presumed for a man who is married to a child’s mother. Society, cohabitation forms and the ways in which families are created are constantly changing, which raises the question of the pertinency of the presumption of parenthood. This is analyzed in the thesis and the provision is put in relation to our time and the implications of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child’s status as Swedish law.
The determination of a legal parent is crucial because it designates a person who is responsible for the child and is a prerequisite for many rights enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the rights of the Child to be fulfilled. Historically, it has been important to protect children by designating a married man as a father, since children in the past did not have inheritance rights after an unmarried father, for instance. Today, however, legal parenting implicates the same obligations for married and unmarried parents. In addition, the majority of children nowadays are born to unmarried parents. The relevancy of attaching parenthood to marriage in today’s society can thus be called into question.
Furthermore, the presumption of parenthood states that it is specifically the marriage between a man and a woman that fatherhood is a legal effect of. There is no corresponding presumption applicable to same-sex marriage meaning that if a mother is married to a woman, this woman must undergo a parenting investigation.
This implies an adverse special treatment of aspiring legal parents in same-sex marriage and their children which is not in line with the best interest of the child. This, together with the diminishing importance of marriage, causes the presumption on fatherhood to appear as less pertinent. (Less)
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- author
- Rottenberg, Maia LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- LAGF03 20192
- year
- 2019
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Familjerätt, faderskapspresumtion
- language
- Swedish
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- 9000160
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- 2020-04-11 16:20:45
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abstract = {{The presumption of parenthood under Chapter 1, Section 1 of the Children and Parents Code provides that fatherhood is presumed for a man who is married to a child’s mother. Society, cohabitation forms and the ways in which families are created are constantly changing, which raises the question of the pertinency of the presumption of parenthood. This is analyzed in the thesis and the provision is put in relation to our time and the implications of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child’s status as Swedish law.
The determination of a legal parent is crucial because it designates a person who is responsible for the child and is a prerequisite for many rights enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the rights of the Child to be fulfilled. Historically, it has been important to protect children by designating a married man as a father, since children in the past did not have inheritance rights after an unmarried father, for instance. Today, however, legal parenting implicates the same obligations for married and unmarried parents. In addition, the majority of children nowadays are born to unmarried parents. The relevancy of attaching parenthood to marriage in today’s society can thus be called into question.
Furthermore, the presumption of parenthood states that it is specifically the marriage between a man and a woman that fatherhood is a legal effect of. There is no corresponding presumption applicable to same-sex marriage meaning that if a mother is married to a woman, this woman must undergo a parenting investigation.
This implies an adverse special treatment of aspiring legal parents in same-sex marriage and their children which is not in line with the best interest of the child. This, together with the diminishing importance of marriage, causes the presumption on fatherhood to appear as less pertinent.}},
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note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Luke, jag presumerar att jag är din fader - en analys av faderskapspresumtionens relevans idag}},
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