Family Law and Family Procedural Law I
1
2024-2025
02046830
Civil Legal
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
7.5
Elective
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado
Recommended Prerequisites
Students should be able to summon knowledge of Family Law, Civil Law and Civil Procedural Law. The should also have language skills in languages other than Portuguese that allow them to çead research in non-Portuguese speaking legal systems.
Teaching Methods
Weekly sessions composed by theoretical lectures regarding substantial and procedural aspects of Family Law and a problem-based approach second part to be developed by Students.
Learning Outcomes
Teaching and scientific approach that stems from the idea that both substantive Family Law and Procedural Family Law pursue the goals of pacifying family relations and protecting vulnerable persons and are also both particularly influenced by societal and political changes of legal policy.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
Substantial and Procedural Family Law regarding the relations between adults within the family: marriage and its consequences, divorce and its consequences; de facto union; custodianship of vulnerable adults.
Head Lecturer(s)
Paula Sofia Couceiro Almeida Távora Vítor
Assessment Methods
Assessment
Other: 40.0%
Research work: 60.0%
Bibliography
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Springer, 2018
Aa. Vv., European Family Law, vol. III (edited by Jens M. Scherpe) Elgar Publishiungs
Dethloff, Nina, New models of partnership: the financial consequences
of separation,Springer, ERA Forum (2011) 12: 89–102
Dethloff, Nina; Martiny, Dieter; Zschoche, Myriam, NATIONAL REPORT: GERMANY, 2015 in http://ceflonline.net/wp-content/uploads/Germany-IR.pdf
Oliveira, Guilherme; Martins, Rosa; Vítor, Paula NATIONAL REPORT: PORTUGAL , 2015, in http://ceflonline.net/wp-content/uploads/Portugal-IR.pdf
Oliveira, Guilherme de; Vítor, Paula. Family and Succession Law in Portugal. Wolters Kluwer. 2019.
Vítor, Paula Távora; Oliveira, Guilherme de. "Post mortem insemination and surrogacy in the Portuguese system". Zeitschrift für das gesamte Familienrecht (FamRz) Heft 18 69 Jahrg (2022): 1442-1445.
Vítor, Paula Távora. "Banni