Abstract
<jats:p>Determining the legal status of a child requires a comprehensive study of theoretical approaches, which, in turn, requires defining not only the concept of "legal status" but also its structural elements. The theoretical and practical need to develop the concept of a child's "legal status" is due to the fact that there is no single approach to this issue. In connection with the above, there are various points of view in the legal literature, which differ from each other by diametrically opposed points of view. Some authors, along with the concept of "legal status", use the term "legal position", trying to generalize these two concepts, considering them in the general context of legal concepts, without separating the legal facts determined by them from the non-legal ones. Within the framework of this article, an attempt was made to discuss the "legal status of a child" in the context of two important prerequisites: citizenship and jurisdiction as categories not limited by the intersectoral affiliation of law, and independent and mandatory components that determine the status of a legal entity, adhering to the opinion that the latter best determine the fact of considering a child as a full-fledged legal entity, unlike it depends on the degree of the child's participation in civil, family, labor and other legal relations, where the consideration of the latter as a fullfledged subject of law is limited to the framework of regulation of intersectoral legal norms.</jats:p>