UCL - Deepening of Family Law

[DROP2071]

[30h] 5 credits

This course is taught in the 2d semester.

Teacher(s):

Language: French

Level: Second

Aims
Main themes

Aims

It aims allowing the students, in the continuation of the course of Family Law given in Bac 3 and of the course of Patrimonial Family Law given in Master 1, resuming certain specific problems which have been examined in a general way in order to proceed to the detailed study and criticize legal rules applicable, such as they are formulated by the legislator and interpreted and applied by the jurisprudence.

This course is a part of a coherent option of three courses. The lecturers responsible of the option form an educational team : they meet on contents and methods of each course to ensure that they are complementary. This course is based on participative educational methods (learning by projects or by cases, comments of jurisprudences or doctrines, debates with guests, ). allowing the student to develop in autonomy a critical, forward-looking and creative evaluation. The student is encouraged to participate in the course and to involve in the learning, which has individual and collective dimension.

Main themes

Every year, the lecturer or lecturers' team responsible for the course will will determine, according to the legislative or case law current events, thematic particular of Family Law (personnal and patrimonial aspects) who would give adequately to a deepening of the legal rules which are applicable to it.

These particular subjects will be chosen among the following topics :

-The status of the human person
-The personal and patrimonial status of the married or not married couple
-Affiliation and status of the child
-Incapable major and the protection of the dependent persons
-Legal relations within the widened family
-Successions and gifts.

The education of applicable legal rules in thematic chosen will make by holding in account as many recent evolutions of the Belgian law (legislation, doctrine and jurisprudence), as the solutions offered with the compared law, more particularly within the European Union.