Text file: 7006.txt
author: Matej Poklukar
downvotes: 4
end consideration date: 2015-10-13
id: '7006'
number comments: 17
number views: 5352
proposal type: Competent authority response
response: "Response by the Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities\n\
  The Marriage and Family Relations Act (Journal of Laws of the RS, No 69/04 - Official\
  \ Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, hereinafter referred to as the \"MHRRA\"\
  ) does not define the concept of a single-parent family or the concept of a single\
  \ mother or single parent in any of its provisions.\nHowever, the concept of a single-parent\
  \ family is defined, for example, in Article 72(3), in the context of the right\
  \ to child benefit, by the Parental Care and Family Benefits Act (ZSDP-1) (Official\
  \ Gazette of the RS, No 26/14), which provides that a single-parent family is a\
  \ union of one parent with one or more children, where the other parent is deceased\
  \ and the child does not receive maintenance benefits from the other parent, or\
  \ where the other parent is unknown, or where the child does not in fact receive\
  \ maintenance benefits from the other parent.\nIt follows that the rights and obligations\
  \ of a parent or of a single-parent family are subject to the regulation of sectoral\
  \ laws which determine the individual rights and obligations and the means of exercising\
  \ them. The sectoral laws regulate the single-parent family for the purposes of\
  \ the exercise of rights under those laws, and such a definition does not apply\
  \ generally.\nIn the area of entitlements to public benefits, new social legislation\
  \ enacted in 2012 established a presumption of the existence of a common-law union,\
  \ irrespective of its duration, between two persons who are not married, provided\
  \ that a child has been born to them or they have adopted a child together and that\
  \ they are not a single-parent family and there are no grounds for the marriage\
  \ to be invalid. A person may rebut the legal presumption of cohabitation by proving\
  \ that he or she is not cohabiting. The burden of proof is thus on the party.\n "
response date: 2015-11-09
response due date: null
sent date: 2015-09-14
title: Fraudulent deception of the actual situation of households of persons registered
  as single mothers
upvotes: 28
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/7006
