Execution deadline in working days
22
The Orphan's Court shall decide on the establishment of guardianship and the appointment of a guardian to a child, if the parents of the child are dead or declared dead, the parents of the child have been suspended or deprived of custody rights, if the parents of the child have been recognised as incapacitated, if the parents of the child have disappeared and been announced in search, if the parents of the child are unable to adequately care and supervise the child, if both of the child, the parents of the child shall be of minor age in the event of a significant disagreement between the child and the parent in the event of other emergency cases.
The Orphan's Court shall ensure that the person to be appointed as guardian has the necessary capabilities and qualities for the fulfilment of the duties of the guardian and evaluate the motivation of the person to become a guardian, relations between family members, employment, living conditions, the capacity to represent the child in personal and property relations.
In particularly difficult and complicated cases of custody, the Orphan's Court may appoint several guardians, but not more than three.
Process description
Service requests
On-site.
1. Personal identification document (presenting the original);
2. An application with a request to appoint a person as guardian of the child (the application must indicate the motivation of the person to become guardian);
3. An opinion on the state of health of the person provided by a family doctor in the care of which the person has been for at least six months, as well as a psychiatrist and a narcologist.
Receipt of services
An application shall be examined within a period of one month if, for objective reasons, the referred to time period cannot be observed, the Orphan's Court may extend it in accordance with the procedures specified in Section 64 of the Administrative Procedure Law (for a period not exceeding four months from the date of submission of the application, but in the case of a long-term establishment of facts - up to a year).
