Lecture 2. Crisis of marriage concept
- Institutional contents dumping: constitutional reference; rights and duties of partners; conjugal guilt; causality control relaxing by conjugal crisis
- Instrumental function of marriage

Lecture 3. De facto unions
- De facto unions and law
- Reference to compared law
- De facto unions within the Spanish law
- Stable couple unions Catalan legislation

Lecture 4. The constitutional marriage system
- State jurisdiction on the subject of marriage
- “Formal” plurality of the system
- Age and competence
- Dissolution, divorce, nullity and separation

Lecture 5. The marriage system and the Spanish civil legislation
- Development of marriage system within the civil legislation
- Formal plurality and election freedom
- Religious forms
- The register inscription as a mean of validity control and civil effectiveness of the religious marriage
- Conditions for the civil effectiveness of ecclesiastic resolutions

Lecture 6. The Family code of Catalonia
- Material application context
- Personal and temporal application
- Particularities in marriage context

Lecture 7. Civil effects of Israeli, Evangelic or Islamic marriage celebration
- Agreements with minority confessions on marriage context: art. n. 7
- Intention of the persons who marry and civil effectiveness
- From religious celebration to civil Register inscription
- Specific problems of Islamic celebration

Lecture 8. Marriage hindrances
- Juridical nature of the impediments
- Civil hindrances
- Canon impediments
- The proceedings as a competence control requirement

IV. CONSENT
Lecture 9. The marriage consent
- Indispensability, contents and emission of consent
- The consent at the civil Code
- Systematic of agreed anomalies

Lecture 10. The consent at the canon marriage
- The function of will to the canon marriage affair
- Systematic of canon agreed anomalies

Lecture 11. The consent at the canon marriage (II)
- Consent psychic estimates: valuation legal criteria
- Lack of enough reasoning competence
- Serious failing in judging discretion
- Inability in assuming the marriage essential obligations

Lecture 12. The consent at the canon marriage (III)
- Simulated consent
- Total simulation
- The so-called partial simulation. Different classes of partial exclusion (exclusion of elements and essential proprieties)

Lecture 13. The consent at the canon marriage (IV)
- Coerced consent
- Agreed error typifying
- Legal fear requirements
- Reverential fear

Lecture 14. The consent at the canon marriage (V)
- Consent and error
- Error at the person
- Error at the personal quality. Error at the quality caused on purpose
- Conditional consent

Lecture 15. Function of the form
- Emission form and reception form
- Substantial meaning of the form
- Civil form and religious forms

Lecture 16. Regulation of the celebration form (I)
- Marriage form within the civil Code
- Ordinary form
- Extraordinary form
- Register inscription
- Nullity by form error

Lecture 17. Regulation of the celebration form (II)
- Religious forms
- Canon ordinary form
- Canon extraordinary form
- Other religious forms

Lecture 18. Nullity and validation
- Conjugal crisis and juridical alternatives
- Marriage nullity and its functions
- Validation

Lecture 19. Conjugal separation
- Concept and jurisdiction
- De facto separation and judicial separation
- Agreed judicial separation
- Judicial separation with legal proceeding

Lecture 20. Marriage dissolution (I)
- Marriage dissolution within the civil ordering
- Death as a cause for dissolution
- Decease statement
- Canon dissolution of unconsummated marriage

Lecture 21. Marriage dissolution (II)
- Divorce within the European law
- Divorce within the Spanish law
- Effective suspension of cohabitation and causes for divorce
- Divorce with and without mutual agreement

Lecture 22. Nullity effects, separation and divorce (I)
- Principal effect and derived effects. Common effects and own effects
- Derived effects and judicial official approval of conjugal agreements
- Effects regarding children
- Familiar home and dowry

Lecture 23. Nullity effects, separation and divorce (II)
- Food, marriage charges, pensions
- Measuring over contribution to the marriage charges and food
- Economical unbalance on the assumption of separation and divorce
- Compensation by Good Faith at c.c. nullity proceedings

Lecture 24. Nullity effects, separation and divorce (III)
- Dissolution and liquidation of economical rule
- Nullity statement effects
- Civil effectiveness of an unconsummated marriage canon dissolution

Lecture 25. Heterosexual unions
- Application requirements of Law n. 30/98
- Regulation during cohabitation
- Extinction and its effects

Lecture 26. Homosexual unions
- Application requirements of Law n. 10/98
- Regulation during cohabitation
- Extinction and its effects

Lecture 27. Marriage and its economical rules
- Purpose of the rule
- Will autonomy at establishing the rule
- Primary marriage rule; charges, litiexpenses, domestic authority, current home

Lecture 28. Profits society
- Concept, definition and juridical nature
- Origin and maintenance
- Establishment of assets within the profits society: profit goods and exclusive goods
- Charges and responsibilities over the profit goods
- Management
- Dissolution and liquidation

Lecture 29. Goods separation rule in Catalonia
- Basic notions
- Organisation principles
- Marriage charges
- Relationships of the married couple with other people
- Liquidation of separation rule in case of nullity, separation and divorce

Lecture 30. Civil marriage processes (I)
- Process principles and marriage trials
- Jurisdiction, competence and law of application
- Provisional and very provisional measures

Lecture 31. Marriage processes (II)
- Typical contradictory process
- Essence of mutual agreement applications
- Novelties of trial treatment at the LEC 1/2000 Law
- Familiar mediation within the Family Code
- Civil effectiveness of canon marriage resolutions
- Autonomic pretensions
- Sentence execution
- Some proceeding references to the Stable couple unions Law

Lecture 32. Canon marriage processes
- Jurisdiction and competence
- Ordinary proceeding of marriage nullity
- Document proceeding of marriage nullity
- Process for the unconsummated marriage dispense

REINA, V.; MARTINELL, J.M. Curso de derecho matrimonial, Madrid, 1995.
LACRUZ BERDEJO; SANCHO REBULLIDA; LUNA SERRANO; RIVERO HERNÁNDEZ. Elementos de derecho civil IV. Derecho de família. 3ª ed. Barcelona, 1990.
MONTES PENADES; ROCA TRIAS (coord.), Derecho de família. 2ª. ed. València, 1995.
PUIG FERRIOL; ROCA TRIAS. Institucions del dret civil de Catalunya. 4ª ed. València, 1995. t. I.
BERNARDEZ CANTON. Compendio de derecho matrimonial canónico. Madrid.
LOPEZ ALARCÓN; NAVARRO VALLS. Curso de derecho matrimonial canónico. 5ª Ed. Madrid, 1994.
 

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