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The new legal regulation in the area of family law, effective from January 2026, introduces, inter alia, a change in terminology – instead of the previous term contact of a parent with a child, it works with the broader concept of the extent of care, as also follows from the provisions of Section 887 of Act No. 89/2012 Coll., the Civil Code (hereinafter also referred to as "CC"). This is not merely a linguistic change. This shift emphasises that the relationship between a child and a parent cannot be reduced solely to temporally defined contact, but that it is part of broader parental responsibility and care for the child in all its complexity. Both parents continue to remain holders of full parental responsibility – and this is key to understanding how parental roles should function even after divorce or separation of unmarried parents.