Introduction. The study of the problems of unnamed evaluative concepts of family law in the doctrine is an extremely rare phenomenon. The analysis of these, coupled with the consideration of legal provisions ensuring their implementation, is of great scientific and practical importance. Methods. The article examines such unnamed evaluative concepts as “father’s interest” and “mother’s interest”. The use of analytical and formal legal methods allows us to draw a conclusion about their features, differences and correlation with other legal structures. Results. The Family Code of Russia contains a significant number of provisions ensuring the implementation of such unnamed evaluative concepts as “mother’s interest” and “father’s interest”. The close relationship of these concepts with the interests of the child, however, does not mean their equivalence. The latter are of dominant importance. Such concepts as “grandmother’s interest”, “grandfather’s interest”, “brother’s interest”, “sister’s interest” and “other relatives’ interest” should be qualified as meta-evaluative. Discussion and Conclusion. An important feature of such unnamed evaluative concepts of family law as “mother’s interest” and “father’s interest” is their intersectoral nature. The conducted research also revealed a paradoxical phenomenon – the legislative provision of what is literally not mentioned in the law.
Alexander V. Fioshin (Thu,) studied this question.