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Choose the starting point that matches your work. The audience briefings link to selected source documents; each download shows its actual page count. The overview connects the historical record with the court proceedings and the later institutional correspondence. The complete index lists all 68 entries: 54 case documents and 14 legal sources.
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Briefings by audience
Journalists and editors
One child, two adoption decisions: where is the legal transition?
A document-led story with a specific contradiction that can be checked.
Evidence to examine first: Milivoj was introduced to the prospective adopters on 5 June 1979, before the three written assessments by social worker Vera Radovanović on 12 June, pedagogue Milosava Gudelj on 18 June and psychologist Cvetko Ratković on 19 June. Vera was one of those three professional assessors: her report of 12 June expressly recommends approving the adoption. On 15 June, the same Vera informs the foster mother that Milivoj will be adopted at the end of June, before the other two written opinions; she is then appointed guardian on 20 June and gives consent to the adoption on 21 June, only 16 days after the introduction. Articles 14, 15 and 17 require examination of the statutory conditions and the child’s interests, professional opinions and a finding that the conditions are met before the adoption hearing is scheduled.
5 June: introduction to the adopters · 12 June: Vera recommends approval · 15 June: Vera announces adoption · 18 June: Gudelj’s favourable written opinion · 19 June: Ratković’s favourable written opinion · 20 June: Vera appointed guardian and gives consent in the 21 June record · Article 14: preparatory examination · Article 15: professional opinions · Article 17: conditions before scheduling
Read online · PDF: EN · 2 pages · HR · 2 pages · HU · 2 pages
Academic researchers
One life classified differently across over fifty years of institutional records
A longitudinal archive for studying how administrative identity is produced.
Evidence to examine first: The original birth extract records Miletić Milivoj; the operative 1979 adoption record assigns Vasić Milan, and the 1984 adoption record assigns Petrović Milan. All three records give 28 June 1974 as the birth date. These are successive records of the same person, with the changes traceable to the acts themselves.
Original birth entry: Miletić Milivoj · 1979: Vasić Milan · 1984: Petrović Milan
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EU institutions
What does judicial review check when official records validate one another?
Contemporary reasoning, institutional accountability and the practical examination of evidence.
Evidence to examine first: The first-instance judgment accepts the written documentation because its authors were authorised and qualified, accepts the claimant’s testimony where it agrees with the credited evidence, and rejects hearing Vinka Ignjatić and Dragan Ignjatić because the facts were already sufficiently examined and further evidence would prolong the case. These are specific judicial reasons against which to examine access to an effective consideration of the evidence.
Authority and qualifications of authors · Accepted parts of the testimony · Reasons for rejecting witnesses
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Croatian institutions
A recorded Croatian mother, a replaced child’s identity
Maternal origin, registered status and access to family information
Evidence to examine first: In the maternal-details section of the 28 June 1974 birth-registration form, Cvita Miletić is named as the mother and her ethnicity is recorded as Croatian (PDF page 1).
Maternal details: Croatian ethnicity
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Hungarian institutions
A father names his son; later records call the father unknown
Hungarian family connection, language and the break in paternal identity
Evidence to examine first: In the divorce record Lakatoš Pavle is expressly identified as Hungarian; Cvita’s own testimony says she bore their son Milivoj in 1974. The 16 April 1979 welfare decision later calls the father unknown. Compare these specific entries while keeping the recorded family statements distinct from the contested question of formal legal paternity.
Father’s recorded ethnicity · Cvita’s testimony about their son · 1979: father recorded as unknown
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Human and children’s rights organisations
When a child’s name changes twice, how does the adult recover his family history?
The child’s voice, continuity of care and access to origins across a lifetime.
Evidence to examine first: Milivoj was introduced to the prospective adopters on 5 June 1979, before the three written assessments by social worker Vera Radovanović on 12 June, pedagogue Milosava Gudelj on 18 June and psychologist Cvetko Ratković on 19 June. Vera was one of those three professional assessors: her report of 12 June expressly recommends approving the adoption. On 15 June, the same Vera informs the foster mother that Milivoj will be adopted at the end of June, before the other two written opinions; she is then appointed guardian on 20 June and gives consent to the adoption on 21 June, only 16 days after the introduction. Articles 14, 15 and 17 require examination of the statutory conditions and the child’s interests, professional opinions and a finding that the conditions are met before the adoption hearing is scheduled.
5 June: introduction to the adopters · 12 June: Vera recommends approval · 15 June: Vera announces adoption · 18 June: Gudelj’s favourable written opinion · 19 June: Ratković’s favourable written opinion · 20 June: Vera appointed guardian and gives consent in the 21 June record · Article 14: preparatory examination · Article 15: professional opinions · Article 17: conditions before scheduling
Read online · PDF: EN · 2 pages · HR · 2 pages · HU · 2 pages
Legal specialists
Nullity of the first act and the chain of subsequent decisions
A testable comparison of statutory conditions and distinct institutional acts
Evidence to examine first: Milivoj was introduced to the prospective adopters on 5 June 1979, before the three written assessments by social worker Vera Radovanović on 12 June, pedagogue Milosava Gudelj on 18 June and psychologist Cvetko Ratković on 19 June. Vera was one of those three professional assessors: her report of 12 June expressly recommends approving the adoption. On 15 June, the same Vera informs the foster mother that Milivoj will be adopted at the end of June, before the other two written opinions; she is then appointed guardian on 20 June and gives consent to the adoption on 21 June, only 16 days after the introduction. Articles 14, 15 and 17 require examination of the statutory conditions and the child’s interests, professional opinions and a finding that the conditions are met before the adoption hearing is scheduled.
5 June: introduction to the adopters · 12 June: Vera recommends approval · 15 June: Vera announces adoption · 18 June: Gudelj’s favourable written opinion · 19 June: Ratković’s favourable written opinion · 20 June: Vera appointed guardian and gives consent in the 21 June record · Article 14: preparatory examination · Article 15: professional opinions · Article 17: conditions before scheduling
Read online · PDF: EN · 3 pages · HR · 3 pages · HU · 3 pages
Central axis
The documents follow one central line:
Milivoj Miletić, child of Croatian mother Cvita Miletić and Hungarian father Pavle / Pal Lakatoš, was moved through state and social-welfare records into the Serbian Vasić adoptive layer in 1979, removed from the paternal inheritance track, and then moved again into the Petrović layer in 1984.
Follow this sequence through the linked original records and their full translations.
Current archive coverage: Court record through 29 May 2026; institutional correspondence through 7 September 2026.
PDF edition: 9 October 2026 — Executive summary / Complete document index