Attempt to Define the Role and Place of Alternating Custody in the Polish Family Law
The article focuses on alternating custody as one of the acceptable forms of childcare by the divorced or separated parents in the system of Polish family law. Alternating custody system, introduced in 2015, has become a real turning point in the family law. Changes in the Polish legal order, already initiated in the Family and Guardianship Code of 1964, allow the transition from the judicial model, referred to as “leave – limit” parental authority to both parents, to solutions that allow the introduction of a real balance and equal treatment of parents holding joint and full parental responsibility. Such shift will open the way to predestinate custody of a child in alternating periods of time.