현행 성년후견제도와 관련한 몇 가지 민법규정의 타당성에 관한 재검토

Adult guardianship system refers to a system that is newly introduced under therevised civil law with a view to overcoming problems of quasi-incompetence systemand guardianship system that has been conventionally accepted under the civil law,and individually coping with a variety of circumstances people face in their need forprotection in response to social requests. Like many developed countries, theprotection system for mentally incapacitated adults, in other words, adultguardianship system has been reformed in Korea. It has been in force 1. July, 2013in South Korea. The new adult guardianship system intended to respect dignity andhuman rights of mentally incapacitated adults, to guarantee their autonomy and tominimize the public interventions for assisting them. The new guardianship system forvulnerable adult, which is due to be implemented by 1. July 2013, has three kinds oflegal guardianship system(adult guardianship, limited guardianship and specificguardianship. I explained about the legislative background and the main Civil Codeprovisions in connection with adult guardianship system and suggested especially theproblems and improvements in connection with the age of majority, and the effectsof juristic act in guardianship contract and specific guardianship system.