Previous knowledge on Civil Family Law.

The student will learn about the reality of Family Law, especially where it is concerned with matrimonial crisis: separation, annulment and dissolution. At the same time, the aim is to help the student reach a reasonable level of knowledge of the discipline, as well as acquiring the capacity to use the necessary theoretical and practical instruments for the resolution of matrimonial conflicts. The programme covers both civil and religious marriages with civil effects in Spain.

- Spanish marriage system: Constitution, Civil Code and Agreements with religious denominations. - Civil Marriage: concept; celebration forms; legal capacity; consent to marriage; personal and patrimonial effects (matrimonial property systems; rules about the end of the common property); separation, nullity and divorce; matrimonial causes; settlement agreement and judicial decree. - Civil effects of religious marriage: religious wedding ceremonies recognized by Civil Law: a) Protestant, hebrew and muslim marriage ceremonies. b) Catholic marriage: concept; the canonical form; legal capacity; consent to marriage; court proceedings; the recognition of civil effects to decisions of ecclesiastical tribunals declaring nullity and disolution of marriage.

Students must resolve properly practical exercises about civil praxis -preparing separation or divorce petitions and mutual agreements on separation or divorce causes, etc.- or canonical praxis -resolving fiction cases about marriage nullity or dissolution "super rato", preparing canonical trials on this issues, etc-. They must write down their answers and submit them to the teacher through Aula Global; or some basic questions about the practice will be asked in class. Then, the case will be bring up for discussion in the classroom, where the students will explain their position about it, debating with the guide of the teacher. Tutorials may be individual or collective. The course's tutorial hours will be posted on Aula Global.