The article is devoted to the evolution of procedures for resolving disputes between separated parents regarding the determination of the place of residence of their child(ren). The article reflects the peculiarities of resolving disputes between parents concerning children, which took place at the main historical stages in the territory of modern Ukraine.
 The author emphasizes the necessity of using historical and legal experience in the regulation of family relations and resoling family conflicts.
 The author reiterates that historical and legal analysis of family relations` regulation and the development of the procedure for resolving family disputes is carried out with the aim of understanding and applying historical and legal experience, identifying the main basis of views in Ukrainian society on the fundamental provisions on which relationship between parents and children are based, as well as a legal procedure of determination of the child's place of residence.
 The article shows main features of the judiciary and the resolving disputes regarding the determination of the child's place of residence, which correspond to different historical periods from Scythia to the reсоvery of Ukraine's independence at the present stage. In particular, attention was paid to the periods of existence of the patriarchal and matriarchal order in the family life, the development of the rights of the child, the discovery of his interests, the development of the court system and civil judiciary.
 It is proposed to single out the stages of evolution of the rules of civil procedure and standards of family law, which regulated and still regulate the procedure of the determination of the place of residence of a minor child on the territory of Ukraine.