ESTABLISHING THE FACT OF KINSHIP RELATIONS
Subject/topic. The subject of this study is the norms of the current Russian civil procedure legislation regulating the specifics of judicial review of cases on establishing the facts of family relations. Goals/task. The purpose of this study is to conduct an in-depth analysis of the procedural features of the evaluation of evidence by judicial authorities in cases of establishing the facts of family relations. Methodology. The methodological basis of this research includes those methods of scientific cognition of objective legal reality and reality that were used when writing the article, namely, such as: deduction, induction, system-structural analysis, formal legal method, logical method, comparative legal method, statistical legal method. Conclusion. In the content of this scientific article, the author examines the norms of the current Russian civil procedure legislation regulating the specifics of judicial review of cases on establishing the facts of kinship relations; reporting statistical data on the number of cases considered by courts on establishing the facts of kinship relations and materials of formed judicial practice on disputes on establishing the facts of kinship relations. The analysis of the formed judicial practice carried out by the author testifies to the lack of knowledge among persons who are applicants in cases of establishing the facts of family relations about what kind of evidence can help them to establish this fact in court, which often leads to a refusal to satisfy the application and, as a consequence, not the onset of legal consequences for the applicant.