LEGAL FACTS AND LEGAL STATUS: PROBLEMS OF THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTSummary: There is a lack of doctrines of legal status in civil law. This phenomenon is insufficiently studied by the scientific community partly because of fundamental issues to be discussed within this theory and the necessity of supplementing its particular points in a precise manner in order to keep and advance the theory of legal facts developed by the science of (civil) law. The legal status should be examined in the context of clear methodological guidelines proposed by the authors. They help reveal the specific nature of legal status at the interface between legal facts and legal relationship. The legal status can be reviewed as a part of both legal models (legal fact and legal relationship) and demonstrates its features in each case, which makes it possible to treat it as a separate legal unit.