LEGAL ASPECTS AND
PROBLEMS OF CIVIL CAPACITY OF MINORS IN THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN.
Ж.Д. Нуралина,
магистрант 1 курса юридического факультета Казахского Национального
Университета им. аль-Фараби, Казахстан, г. Алматы.
E-mail: zhannyet@mail.ru
Each of us is a particle
of the society, the whole state, even the whole world. Without person, the
subject wouldn't be this whole which has the right to be called as meaning of
life. If plunge into depth of our ancient history or to lean to all told myths
about the mankind birth, the era of human society and the beginning legal the
relation begins from Adam and Eve's relationship. This led communication and the
relation to formation of some certain rules which defined their place and
appointment in society. Means, to the early legal relationship and its norms
with arrival of every era changed, every time it turns, increasing the
importance. These norms couldn't but will concern a problem of the concerning
children in the civil relations. And it is still a global legal problem of all
over the world.
Natural persons are the
main subjects, are more exact participants of the civil - legal relations.
Natural persons share on full age and on minor people. Minors, more than ever
were and are light future our state and their legal state is considered one of
important problems in the legal sphere.
According to the
Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan the main values of the state are the
person, his rights, freedom, legitimate interests and preferences. Certain
rights and duties of the person belong to him from the his birth and they make
his legal capacity. And also some rights of people possess the actions and as a
result assign to itself certain obligations. Ability of the citizen to have
rights and to assign to itself duties voluntarily and without someone's
pressure forms his capacity.
Full capacity of the
citizen is established according to his age and consciousness. If, the citizen
is capable to operate the consciousness and reached eighteen-year age, it means
about his capacity. But a certain category of minors possesses some capacity
which it is possible to call "partial capacity". In our market economy
even minors realize certain actions and it is generally connected with material
values. Therefore it is especially important to define legal status of minors
which appears in such situations. Because, the persons which didn't reach full
age age can't argue such relations and in most cases make mistakes, and also
the rights because of low-education and crisis of explanatory work are violated
from appropriate authorities. Communications from subjects of their action are
limited respectively to provisions of the law. These restrictions are provided
with parents, adoptive parents, trustees, and also trustees with an additional
consent and responsibility. Here therefore the scientific-theoretical basis
needs comprehensive consideration of similar topical issues.
Since our country gained
independence, protection of minors and a state policy on fight against child
labor, and also all bodies for affairs of the concerning minors will organize
the activity, leaning on the duties accepted in the international level by
legislatures.
The Republic of
Kazakhstan authorized additional resolutions of the Convention of the UN on the
rights of minors (1989), the Convention of the International Labour
Organization No. 138 and No. 182, and also the Convention on the rights of
minors, sale of minors, prostitution and a pornography of minors (2000).
The problem of
protection of the rights and interests of minors existed in Kazakhstan at all
times, unfortunately, it isn't solved and today, demanding fixed attention of
all authorized bodies of the country. The social and economic situation in our
country dictates an urgent need of development of a scientifically based
package of measures, the legal conditions for realization and protection of the
rights of children creating system. Children were unprotected during social and
economic reforms. Growth of unemployment and crime among the population of the
country, the inflationary processes armed and the international conflicts,
moral degradation, decrease in a standard of living affected, first of all,
families and children. Begging and homelessness, vagrancy, flight of children
from families because of the tough treatment of them, growth of number of cases
of deprivation of the parental rights are quite unfavorable and negative facts
from life of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Since 1990 Kazakhstan is
the equal participant of the Convention of the UN "About the rights of the
child". Same the Convention comes into force on September 2, 1990. The
Convention on the Rights of the Child is part of the Kazakhstan legislation.
According to this international legal document, Kazakhstan assumed many-sided
obligations for providing and protection of the rights of the child. There are
some definitions the concept "child". They differently open its essence.
Also, legal definition the concept "child" is given in the Convention
and in the Law to the Republic of Kazakhstan "About marriage (matrimony)
and a family".
The law "About the
Rights of the Child in the Republic of Kazakhstan" governs the relations
arising in connection with realization of basic rights and interests of the
child. Proceeding from the principles of priority of training of children for
full-fledged life in society, developments in them of socially significant and
creative activity, education in them high moral qualities, patriotism and civic
consciousness, formation of national consciousness on the basis of universal
values of a world civilization guarantees their rights and interests the
Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan. First of all the attention is paid
to the best ensuring interests of the child and all actions concerning children
irrespective of, they are undertaken by the public or private institutions
dealing with issues of social security, courts administrative or legislature, etc.
Each child has the right for preservation of the identity - to have the name, a
surname, nationality, family relations. This situation has to admit for all
children without any exceptions and without distinction or discrimination on
the basis of race, skin color, a floor, language, religion, political or other
convictions, the national or social origin, a property status, the birth or
other circumstance concerning the child or his family. The law on marriage
(matrimony) and a family provides the right of the child freely to express the
opinion. The legislation doesn't specify the minimum age since which the child
has these rights.
In the Convention it is recorded that such
rights are granted to the child capable to formulate own views. Means as soon
as the child reaches sufficient extent of development, he has rights to express
the opinion at the decision in a family of any question infringing on its
interests. Various legal significance, depending on its age is attached to
opinion of the child. The convention orders "to pay attention to the
child's views according to his age and a maturity".
According to Art. 62 of
the Law "About Marriage (Matrimony) and a Family", the accounting of
opinion of the child who reached 10-year age is obligatory. To this age the
child capable to express the views, too has to be heard. But owing to his
minority and the early childhood, at disagreement with his opinion parents,
trustees and officials aren't obliged to motivate the disagreement.
The motherhood, the
childhood, family represent the interconnected system of social factors. That
is it is interdependent system to a great extent defining a condition of
society and prospect of its progressive development, communication, normal
change and continuity of generations, readiness of new members of society to
full realization of the rights and duties of the person and citizen, as well as
the actual realization of these rights and duties in social and private
activity. Told explains why the Constitution unites and consolidates requirements
of protection of these institutes by the state.
Minor citizens of our
state have to be protected from all negative both physical, and moral
influences. As we live and we move ahead in market economy where the social and
economic system of society develops on the basis of a private property and the
commodity-money relations negatives can't but will concern also minor citizens
of our state. Protection of the rights of minors is understood as the
following: restoration of the violated right, creation of the conditions
compensating the loss of the rights taking place, removal of obstacles on the
way of implementation of the right, etc.
One of the most
important rights of the child is his right for the family education provided to
article 60 of the Law "About Marriage (Matrimony) and a Family". This
right, first of all, consists in providing to the child of opportunity to live
and be brought up in a full-fledged family. Family education - the best form of
education of the child which knows mankind. The family for the child is not
only habitat, but also the educational environment. Influence of a family
especially during the period development of the child most exceeds other
educational influence. The family represents and reflects both school, and mass
media, public organizations, friends, influence of literature and art. No
public forms of education can be compared to a family, and numerous attempts to
replace family education public serve that as confirmation. Therefore a task of
the family legislation is protection of the right of the child for education in
a family.
The law "About
Marriage (Matrimony) and a Family" provides that obligations for
protection of the rights of the child on his parents, lawful representatives,
and also agencies of guardianship and guardianship and the prosecutor. In the
most difficult situation the child appears when his rights are violated by the
persons urged to carry out their protection - parents or persons replacing
them. In the law on marriage (matrimony) and a family the right of the child
directly to address for protection against abuses of parents and other lawful
representatives is affirmed.
The right of the child
for health protection is provided with improvement of the legislation of the
Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of health protection of the child,
promotion and stimulation of a healthy lifestyle of children, ensuring control
of a state of health of the child, his parents and prevention of children's
diseases.
Relevance of a subject
of the real research is defined by existence of both the theoretical, and
practical problems connected with the rights of minors and with observance of
these rights, and also problems of protection of the rights of minors.