MOSCOW, July 31 (RAPSI, Lyudmila Klenko) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law granting parents in nuclear families right to choose a legal guardian for their child in event of their simultaneous death, according to the document published on the official website of judicial acts.

Earlier legislation granted such a right only to single parents while parents in intact ones did not have it because law did not consider possibility of their simultaneous death.

The law also specifies the procedure of assigning guardian status as well as change or cancellation of this status.