PERSONS AND FAMILY RELATIONS OUTLINE

I.

Effect and application of laws

II.

Human Relations

III.

Civil Personality
A. General provisions
B. Natural persons
C. Juridical persons

IV.

Citizenship and domicile

V.

Family Code
A. Requisites of marriage
B. Marriages exempt from license requirement
C. Void and voidable marriages
D. Legal Separation
E. Rights and obligations between husband and wife
F. Property relations between husband and wife

VI.

1.

General provisions

2.

Donations by reason of marriage

3.

System of absolute community

4.

Conjugal partnership of gains

5.

Separation of property of the spouse and administration of common

property by one spouse during the marriage

6.

Regime of separation of property

7.

Property regimes of unions without marriage

The Family
A. As an institution
B. The family home

VII.

Paternity and filiation

A. Legitimate children
B. Proof of filiation
C. Illegitimate children
D. Legitimated children

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VIII.

Adoption

IX.

Support

X.

Parental Authority
A. General provisions\
B. Substitute and special parental authority
C. Effect of parental authority upon the persons of the children
D. Suspension or termination of parental authority

XI.

Emancipation and age of majority

XII.

Summary judicial proceedings in the Family Law

A. Scope of application
B. Separation in fact between husband and wife
C. Incidents involving parental authority
D. Other matters subject to summary proceedings

XIII.

Final Provisions Art. 254 - 257

XIV.

Funerals

XV.

Care and education of children

XVI.

Use of surnames

XVII. Absence
A. Provisional measures in case of absence
B. Declaration of absence
C. Administration of the property of the absentee
D. Presumption of death
E. Effect of absence upon the contingent rights of the absentee
XVIII. Civil Registry