IDENTIFYING DATA 2023_24
Subject (*) FAMILY LAW Code 15214108
Study programme
Bachelor's Degree in Law (2009)
Cycle 1st
Descriptors Credits Type Year Period
4 Compulsory Third 1Q
Language
Català
Department Private, Procedural and Financial Law
Coordinator
BARRADA ORELLANA, MARÍA DE LOS REYES
E-mail martin.garrido@urv.cat
reyes.barrada@urv.cat
Lecturers
GARRIDO MELERO, MARTÍN
BARRADA ORELLANA, MARÍA DE LOS REYES
Web http://www.fcj.urv.cat
General description and relevant information <p>Family law is the set of legal rules that regulates personal and property relations of a family nature and is therefore not exclusively limited to relations between family members, but also covers institutions that are not strictly family-related, but are governed by some of the principles, wich we call family-related principles, as they may be the support measures for people with disabilities.</p>

Competences
Type A Code Competences Specific
 CE2 Identification, interpretation and use of internal, European, international and comparative legal sources
 CE3 Legal advice, mediation, negotiation and dispute resolution
 CE4 Identification of legal issues from a complex set of non-legally structured facts
 CE6 Drafting of complex legal documents
 CE7 Awareness of the function of law as a system for regulating social and economic relations
 CE8 Awareness of the unitary nature of the legal code and the interdisciplinary of legal problems
 CE9 In-depth knowledge of the foremost public and private legal institutions, their origin and historical evolution
 CE10 Accurate use of applicable law and involvement in current problems
 CE11 Differentiation between legal reasoning and ethical, political, economic and social arguments
Type B Code Competences Transversal
Type C Code Competences Nuclear

Learning outcomes
Type A Code Learning outcomes
 CE2 General
 CE3 Can respond to a problem by applying regulations, jurisprudence and the authorized doctrine
 CE4 General
 CE6 General
 CE7 General
 CE8 General
 CE9 General
 CE10 General
 CE11 General
Type B Code Learning outcomes
Type C Code Learning outcomes

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
INTRODUCTIO: FAMILY LAW Lesson 1: Family Law

MARRIAGE Lesson 2: The Marriage System

Lesson 3: Celebration of marriage

Lesson 4: Legal effects of marriage in the personal sphere

Lesson 5: Nullity of marriage

Lesson 6: Separation of spouses and dissolution of marriage

Lesson 7: Common effects of nullity, separation and divorce
PROPERTY RELATIONS BETWEEN SPOUSES Lesson 8: Legal effects of marriage on property.

Lesson 9: Legal transactions between spouses.

Lesson 10: The matrimonial property regime.

Lesson 11: Separation of property regime.

Lesson 12: "Sociedad de gananciales" (community property regime)

Lesson 13: Other matrimonial property regimes
NON-MATRIMONIAL RELATIONSHIPS Lesson 14: Cohabitating relationships

Lesson 15: Mutual aid (cohabitating) relationships
KINSHIP RELATIONSHIP Lesson 16: Kinship and the right to maintenance between relatives

Lesson 17: Filiation

Lesson 18: Filiation by adoption
CIVIL INSTITUTIONS FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE PERSON Lesson 19: Civil institutions for the protection of minors and support measures for the exercise of the legal capacity of persons with disabilities: change of paradigm

Lesson 20: Parental authority

Lesson 21: The protection of minors

Lesson 22: Support measures for the exercise of legal capacity of persons with disabilities
THE PATRIMONIAL PROTECTION OF THE DISABLED OR DEPENDENT PERSON Lesson 22: The patrimonial protection of the disabled or dependent person: the protected patrimony Lesson 23: Wealth protection of the disabled or dependent person: protected wealth

Planning
Methodologies  ::  Tests
  Competences (*) Class hours
Hours outside the classroom
(**) Total hours
Introductory activities
CE3
2 0 2
Lecture
CE2
CE4
CE6
CE7
CE8
CE9
CE10
CE11
22 40 62
Practical cases/ case studies
CE2
CE4
CE6
CE7
CE8
CE9
CE10
CE11
12 17 29
Personal attention
CE3
1 0 1
 
Multiple-choice objective tests
CE3
2 2 4
Practical tests
CE3
1 1 2
 
(*) On e-learning, hours of virtual attendance of the teacher.
(**) The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies
Methodologies
  Description
Introductory activities Presentation of the subject.
Lecture Classroom lectures. To get the most out of the lectures, a prior study of each institution is recommended.
Practical cases/ case studies Practical application of theoretical concepts. To get the most out of the case studies, a prior study of each institution is recommended.
Personal attention In-person mentoring, upon request by e-mail.

Personalized attention
Description

In-person mentoring, upon request by e-mail.


Assessment
Methodologies Competences Description Weight        
Multiple-choice objective tests
CE3
- Theoretical test

- Structure: multiple-choice test

- Content: all subjects

- Date: to be specified in the work plan.

- Marked out of 10.

- The minimum to pass the test is 5

- To make an average grade with the practical part, a minimum of 4 is required.

- Unanswered questions will not be deducted and wrong questions will be deducted 0.25 of the value of the question.

- For averaging with other parts of the subject, each part requires a minimum of 4. If a minimum of 4 is not reached in any test, the subject is not passed, even if the average of the 2 tests results in a value of 5 or higher.

- value: 60% to be averaged with 40% of the practical test.

60%
Practical tests
CE3
- Practical test:

- Methodology: resolution of one or more practical cases, which the student will have to structure.
Students are allowed to use the Spanish Civil Code and the Catalonia Civil Code (and any other legal documents that may be determined by the teaching staff).
Photocopies are NOT allowed.

- Content: all subjects

- Date: as specified in the work plan.

- Marks out of 10.

- The minimum to pass the test is 5

- To make an average grade with the theoretical part a minimum of 4 is required.

- For averaging with other parts of the subject, each part requires a minimum of 4. If a minimum of 4 is not reached in any test, the subject is not passed, even if the average of the 2 tests results in a value of 5 or higher.

- value: 40% to be averaged with 60% of the practical test.
40%
Others   - IT IS ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN TO USE OR POSSESS COMMUNICATION DEVICES AND / OR TRANSMISSION OF DATA WHILE TAKING THE TESTS (art. 21 NAM Grau).

- In accordance with academic regulations, any type of fraud in the completion of any of the tests, especially plagiarism or the copy/paste method in online tests, will result in the failure of the entire course.












































 
Other comments and second exam session

For all tests: each student will take the test in the group, morning or afternoon, that corresponds to his/her registration (no changes are allowed).

Calculation of results: For averaging with other parts of the subject, each part requires a minimum of 4.

a) Students who have taken both tests (theoretical and practical): average in the percentages described above.

b) Students who have not taken the theoretical part (60%): not presented.

c) Students who have not taken the practical part: average between the result of the theoretical part and a 0.

Second exam session

- The same criteria are applied as in the first exam session.

- The parts passed in the first exam session are kept, with which the average will be taken, according to the criteria of the minimum 4.


Sources of information

Basic

The latest editions of the following works are recommended:

- Pedro DEL POZO - Esteve BOSCH - Antoni VAQUER: Derecho civil de Cataluña. Derecho de familia. Editorial Marcial Pons, 2a. edició.

- Reyes BARRADA - Martín GARRIDO - Sergio NASARRE: El nuevo derecho de la persona y de la familia. Libro Segundo del Código Civil de Cataluña. Editorial Bosch, S.A.

- Martín GARRIDO MELERO: Derecho de familia. Editorial Marcial Pons.

- Mª Carmen GETE-ALONSO et altri: Derecho de familia vigente en Cataluña, Editorial Tirant lo Blanch.

 

Complementary

The complementary bibliography is specified for each of the lessons in the manuals mentioned above.


Recommendations

Subjects that are recommended to be taken simultaneously
INHERITANCE LAW/15214109

Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before
LAW OF OBLIGATIONS AND CONTRACTS/15214106
RIGHTS IN REM/15214107
GENERAL CIVIL LAW/15214007
(*)The teaching guide is the document in which the URV publishes the information about all its courses. It is a public document and cannot be modified. Only in exceptional cases can it be revised by the competent agent or duly revised so that it is in line with current legislation.