Forms of parental legal relations

Introduction: when researching the problems of parental legal relations, scholars usually employ the general concept of legal relations. The connection between parental legal relations and a closer type of relations - family legal ones - is not studied. The reason lies in the insufficiently developed scientific doctrine about family legal relations. As a result, the provisions of the doctrine relating to some particular types of family and parental legal relations remain undeveloped as well. In family law rhetoric, their essence is often hidden behind the familiar but scientifically unclear word combination "parental rights and obligations ", which is often perceived as a mere formality necessary to form some judgments on its basis. Constituting the core of the so-called "parental right", the legal essence of this word combination is nearly always reduced to the question of whom and how to oblige and force for the rights of the parent - child legal relations participants to be respected. Purpose: to lay the foundation for creation of the necessary theoretical groundwork for the problem of parental legal relations, taking into account the necessary theoretical and methodological premises. Methods: the research is based on general scientific methods (formal and dialectic logic, comparative law, interpretation) and the legal dogmatic method of cognition. Results: existence of a well-developed theory offamily legal relations will allow for formation of the appropriate theoretical and methodological foundations for studying the theory of parental legal relations as their variety. In order to ensure progress in the development of scientific issues concerning parental legal relations, the authors propose to distinguish between rights in personam with obligations corresponding to them and absolute rights as perfect rights realization of which is not associated with assigning anybody to obligations.