Scientific Journal of KubSAU

The article is about legal status of artificial plots of land in International law. The authors briefly tell about the history of development of modern international maritime law. Then the authors analyze United Nations Convention’s 1982 on The Law of The Sea norms about legal status of artificial plots of lands situated in different regions of marine space: in the territorial sea, the contiguous zone, on the continental shelf, in the exclusive economic zone, on the high seas. The convention includes terms of the same nature, for example, artificial island, installations, structures, devices and constructions. The term «constructions» is collective for all objects, that was made by people in the maritime space. At the same time, the Convention divides some kinds of artificial things. In addition, the article is about State Sovereignty issues of artificial objects, which are placed in the maritime space. The authors established some parallels between International law rules and Russian law rules, which govern the legal status of artificial plots of land

Norms of the active Russian legislation enshrining the inheritance rights and defining the status of surrogate children, surrogate mother and the genetic parents connecting to the question of the obtaining and realization of the inheritance rights of these children are subjected to a detail analyze in the article. The authors described uncertainties and double-meanings of some occasions of appearing of surrogate children’s inheritance rights, what arise in practice, for example, when surrogate mother in childbirth could not give her agreement for registration people, who had given their genetic material, as parents of surrogate child. The authors found out imperfection of active legislation of Russian Federation in the context of question of surrogate children’s inheritance rights in case of genetic parents’ death before childbirth. Other important question, that the authors tried to resolve in the article, is connected with child’s inheritance rights, who was conceived after death of his genetic parents. Also the attention is focused on the absence legal mechanisms of action on genetic parents, who refuse surrogate children, in the Family Code of Russian Federation and in Civil Code of Russian Federation. Authors reached a conclusion that surrogate children’s inheritance rights should be legal regulated in detail. Some suggestions on these issues are offered in the article