Marriage and Family Law

The Law on Marriage and Family is an introductory course to the law regulating family relationships. Learners will be acquainted with the different types of family structures, the legal relevance of family relationships, the main public policy concerns about families, the different regulatory options to the most common concerns and conflict situations in families, and the sources of family law both at international and domestic level. The course will examine the family relationships between adults based on marriage and the main issues concerning the family economy (primary regime and marital property issues); the consequences of family breakdown, both in relation to children and between the spouses or non-married partners; the establishment of legal parentage based on natural reproduction, on assisted reproductive technologies and on adoption; and the rights and duties derived from parenting (parental responsibility).