Course Description
I. Introduction. Legal Notion of Family and Succession and the Succession Phenomenon. Family and Succession Law. Sources. Constitutional Principles. Features of Family and Succession Law and of Family and Succession Rights.
II. Family Relations.
2.1. Relatives. Affiliation Relation. Establishment of Parent-Child Relationship. Establishment of Mother-Child Relationship. Establishment of Father-Child Relationship. Assisted Procreation. Effects of the Affiliation.
2.2. In-laws.
2.3. Adoption.
2.4. Marriage. Matrimonial Regimes.
III. Matrimonial Relation.
3.1. Constitution of a Matrimonial Relation: Marriage as an Act.
3.1.1. Civil Marriage.
3.1.2. Catholic Marriage.
3.2. Effects of Marriage: Marriage as a 'status'.
3.2.1 . Personal Effects.
3.2.2. Patrimonial Effects. Regime of the Matrimonial Goods. Pre-Nuptial Agreements. Description of the Legal Regimes of Goods. Administration of the Goods of the Couple. Matrimonial Illegitimacies. Liability for the Debts of the Spouse.
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Intended Learning Outcomes
CILO-1: This course aims to provide students an introduction to family law and family legal personal and patrimonial relations, as relatives, in particular filiation, adoption, and marriage, with development of marriage assets, and alimony, and the succession patrimonial relations, legal and voluntary succession, in specially legal and testamentary, and family relations development in a changing society, for the understanding of family and social relations and it relevance in the legal system and legal practice.