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PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW | MARITAL PROPERTY SYSTEM | CONFLICT OF LAWS RULE | PRINCIPLE OF EQUALITY BETWEEN SPOUSES

 

Constitutional Court, judgment no. 90/03, 14.02.2003

 

JURISDICTION: Constitutional

CASE: 692/2002

SUBJECT: Constitutional appeal

RAPPORTEUR: Bravo Serra

RULING: Rejects the appeal, on the grounds that the conflict of laws rule in Article 53(2) of the Civil Code, original version, exhausted its effects at the time of the celebration of the marriage, when the 1976 Constitution was not yet in force.

DOMESTIC LAW:

Portuguese Constitution [Articles 18(2), 36]

1933 Constitution

Law no. 28/82, of 15 November 1982 [Article 70(1)(b)]

Civil Code, original version [Articles 14 and ff., 53(2), 1714(1)]

Civil Code, as amended by Decree-Law no. 496/77, of 25 November 1977 [Articles 53(2), 1714(1)]

Code of Civil Procedure (Article 684-A)

Decree-Law no. 47344, of 25 November 1966 (Article 15)

INTERNATIONAL LAW: n.a.

FOREIGN LAW: n.a.

KEYWORDS: Private International Law; marital property system; conflict of laws rule; principle of equality between spouses; divorce; German court; common habitual residence at the time of the marriage; Federal Republic of Germany; citizen of German nationality; citizen of Portuguese nationality; law applicable to the substance and effects of the marital property system; German law; Zugewinngemeinschaft; discriminatory treatment of the spouses; marriage celebrated in Portugal; personal law of the husband; discrimination between husband and wife; spouses of different nationalities; fundamental principles of the Portuguese legal system; international public order of the Portuguese state; fundamental principle of Portuguese family law; marriage prior to the 1976 Constitution; marriage dissolved in Germany; division of assets between the former spouses; discrimination based on sex; habitual residence in Germany; classic doctrinal of constitutional indifference vis-à-vis Private International Law; application of foreign law; fundamental rights “of nations”; immutability of the marital property system after the celebration of the marriage; application of the law in time

COMMENTS: Coming soon.

REFERENCES IN THE LITERATURE: n.a.  

 

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