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“I've Got Nothing to Pay With.” Child Support When the Other Parent Claims to Have Nothing

The minimum wage on paper, self-employed and claiming flat-rate expenses, assets transferred to relatives, and yet holidays by the sea. How a court sets child support when the other parent claims to have nothing, and how to prove their real standard of living.

Mgr. Bára Bartoňková

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Domestic Violence When Parents Take Turns Caring for the Children: Protection That Doesn't Require Living Together

Divorced parents who take turns caring for their children often don't even try to get protection from violence through the courts, because they don't live together. Since July 2025 that has not been a requirement. What the law protects, what to describe in your application, and what it means for the children and for property.

Mgr. Bára Bartoňková

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Grandma Wants to See Her Grandchild: When Grandparents Have a Right to Contact, and When the Court Must Act Fast

After a divorce or a parent's death, grandparents are often the first to lose contact with the child. The law gives them a right to contact, but not automatically. What decides is the child's emotional bond, the child's interests and whether contact can actually take place.

Mgr. Bára Bartoňková

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How Far Apart Can Parents Live and Still Share Care? Moving Away, Two Schools and Who Does the Driving

One parent moves a hundred or three hundred kilometres away, and the question is whether care by both parents can still work. This year the Constitutional Court said that distance alone decides nothing. What decides is the particular children, their school, the journeys and who is responsible for the distance.

Mgr. Bára Bartoňková

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The Other Parent Won't Hand Over the Child: Police, a Fine or the Court?

It is Friday, you are standing outside the house with a judgment in your hand, and nobody brings the child out. The police will not help you in the way you expect. What does work: an application for enforcement, fines from CZK 5,000, substitute contact and a court that must decide, as a rule, within two months.

Mgr. Bára Bartoňková

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You've Received an Application for a Provisional Decision on Your Child. What Now?

Since January 2026, arrangements for children “for the time being” have been made by provisional decision. There is no appeal against it, so everything is settled at the district court, often within a few days. What the application must contain, how to respond to it and what to do if the court has decided without you.

Mgr. Bára Bartoňková

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Child Custody Disputes: What Every Parent Needs to Know — and What You Won't Escape

Custody proceedings are not an ordinary civil case. The central figure is not the parent but the child. Ten things recent Constitutional Court case law tells parents, even when it hurts.

Mgr. Bára Bartoňková

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When a Child Refuses to Visit the Other Parent: Law vs. Reality

Your child refuses to go to the other parent. Are you breaking a court order? Could you be fined? What the law says and what happens in practice, without simple answers.

Mgr. Bára Bartoňková

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Child Support After the 2026 Reform: How Much, How Long, and What If They Don't Pay

How a court sets child support after the 2026 Czech reform, what to do when the other parent does not pay, and when it makes sense to ask for a reduction. Clearly and without unnecessary stress.

Mgr. Bára Bartoňková

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Uncontested vs. Contested Divorce: Which Is Faster, Cheaper, and Less Painful

Agreed or contested divorce? A comparison after the 2026 Czech family law reform: conditions, costs, length of proceedings and what it means for children.

Mgr. Bára Bartoňková

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What Changed in Czech Family Law in January 2026 — and What It Means for You

Since January 2026, the most extensive family law reform in a decade has been in force. It changes divorce, the care of children, enforcement of court decisions and child support. Here is what it means for parents, without the legal jargon.

Mgr. Bára Bartoňková

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Domestic Violence and the Law: What You Can Do and Where to Find Help

What domestic violence means under Czech law, and how police eviction, a court's interim measure and a criminal complaint work. Contacts and options, without judgement.

Mgr. Bára Bartoňková

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