Legal Regulation of Family Business in the Russian Federation: Some Development Trends

Relevance. The lack of coordinated doctrinal approaches to the definition of the concept of "family entrepreneurship" and taking into account its inherent features leads to the fact that legislative regulation on issues related to family entrepreneurship develops in a non-systematic way, within the framework of individual legislative acts, without taking into account the specifics and gaps of legal regulation. The assessment of the current state of the legal regulation of family entrepreneurship and the trends of its development are the immediate task of researchers who set the vectors of the formation of modern Russian legislation on family business.
The purpose is to identify current trends in the development of legal regulation of family entrepreneurship.
Objectives: determination of the general state of development of family entrepreneurship as a form of business; formation of the concept of "family entrepreneurship"; identification of the main areas of legal regulation of family entrepreneurship.
Methodology. In the research we used methods of analysis and synthesis, comparative analysis, formal-legal, interpretation of legal norms.
Results. For the successful implementation of family entrepreneurship, it is required at the legislative level to determine the rights and obligations of each participant in family entrepreneurship, as well as the cases, features and conditions of his responsibility for obligations related to the implementation of such activities. It is necessary to adopt a special comprehensive legislative act.
Conclusion. The conclusion that legislative regulation should also take into account the existence of "life cycle" of any family business, because in the process of its existence there can be changes in the composition of its owners and participants, changes in forms of ownership, conditions of management and other characteristics due primarily to events related to family circumstances, including changes in family composition, change of generations, redistribution of functions and role settings of its members, possible change of priorities.

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