Structural Changes in Guardianship
Project period: 2024-2025
As of 1 January 2023, German guardianship law underwent a structural change with the entry into force of reform legislation adopted in 2021. This research project aims to record and analyse the extent and focus of this structural change. Simultaneously, key debates and legal developments in guardianship law since 1900 are addressed and recapitulated. The central themes of the study are the changes in the legal position of a ward and the changing conceptions of guardianship both relative to private law and public law and also in terms of its understanding as either parental substitution or a responsibility of the state.