Slovak Financial Law News 2005

Alternate Care for the Minor

The ambiguity of alternate care for a minor regulated by previous provisions of law has been eliminated by a clear definition of three types of alternate care. Cases of alternate care are as follows: (a) personal alternate care, (b) foster parent care, and (c) institutional care. Alternate care may be established only in a court ruling and is temporary.

The new Act clearly stipulates who may exercise personal alternate care for a minor or to whom a minor may be entrusted for purposes of foster parent care.

Institutional care may be ruled by court only if a child may not be entrusted into personal alternate care or foster parent care.