Subjects:

Family Law, Looseleaf Works

Contents:

Part 1 General introduction: general background information

historical background

demographic data

sources of law and the administering courts.

Part 2 Persons: the status of a person

registrations of civil status

personality rights

acquisition and changing names

nationality

domicile and residence

mentally handicapped persons.

Part 3 Family law: marriage

the nature and capacity to marry

formalities and effects of marriage

void/voidable marriages

divorce

cohabitation without marriage

filiation

adoption

parental authority

guardianship

kinship and relationships of affinity.

Part 4 Matrimonial property law: rights and obligations of spouses

the matrimonial home

transactions between spouses

the marriage settlement

the legal matrimonial regime

conventional matrimonial regimes.

Part 5 Succession law: intestate succession

the heir

capacity of succeed

commorientes

the system of descent

classes of heirs

representation

the anomalous succession

the rights of the State on the "bona vacantia"

testementary succession

different types of will

acts "inter vivos" related to the estate, estate planning

trusts, acquisition and administration of the estate. (Part contents).

This encyclopaedia covers family law together with marital property law and succession. International monographs describing the activities of several international organizations in the domain of family and succession law are also included.