Izvanbračna zajednica u nasljednom pravu – komparativna analiza

The hereditary legal effect of an extramarital partnership is of exceptional and growing importance for the civil law sphere, but also for life in general. This legal institute is very complex, and even in one state different laws contain different definitions of the term extramarital partnership. Thereby, although on first sight it looks different, such approach has arguments which justify it. It is certainly important to note that, even in the case of similar social circumstances, the normative answer of the legislator is not necessarily identical. In this paper, the authors have made the comparative study of this legal institute and gave conclusions de lege lata and de lege ferenda. Despite the fact that data from several countries were used, the authors focused primarily on the three countries with similar recent history, one of which is the EU member (Republic of Croatia), and two of them are just applying for this status (Republic of Serbia, Republic of Montenegro).