Guimarães Court of Appeal, proc. 425/17.2T8FAF-A.G1, 21.06.2018

PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES | RIGHT OF THE CHILD TO BE HEARD | PEDOPSYCHIATRIC EVALUATION | MATERNAL PROFILE

 

 

Guimarães Court of Appeal, proc. 425/17.2T8FAF-A.G1, 21.06.2018

 

JURISDICTION: Civil

SUBJECT: Regulation of parental responsibilities

RAPPORTEUR: Fernando Fernandes Freitas

RULING: Dismissal of the appeal and confirmation of the lower court decision, which had rejected the appellant’s request for a pedopsychiatric evaluation of one of his children and for an evaluation of the personality and maternal profile of the children’s mother.

DOMESTIC LAW:

Portuguese Constitution (Article 20)

Civil Code (Article 389)

Code of Civil Procedure [Articles 608(2), 635(4), 639, 641(2)(b), 663(2), 986(2), 987 and 988(1)]

General Regime of Civil Guardianship Procedure [Articles 4(1)(a)(b)(c)(2), 12, and 42(1)]

Constitutional Court, judgment no. 759/2013, 18.11.2013

INTERNATIONAL LAW:

Convention on the Rights of the Child [Articles 10(2) and 12]

Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (Article 24)

FOREIGN LAW: n.a.

KEYWORDS: Maternal profile; right of the child to be heard; pedopsychiatric evaluation; parental estrangement; Angolan nationality; resident in Angola; a mother’s normal attributions; abnormality of behaviours; personality evaluation; racism; xenophobia; vaccination; the child’s school situation; forensic psychological evaluation; parental capabilities; psychological blackmail; balanced development of the child; lack of maturity; best interest of the child; geographic distance; medical-psychiatric knowledge; common sense; foreign country

COMMENTS: Coming soon.

REFERENCES IN THE LITERATURE:

FERNANDES, Maria João da Cruz, A Obrigação de Alimentos: Medida, Cálculo e Incumprimento [Alimony Obligations: Measure, Estimate and Non-Compliance], Braga, University of Minho, 2019, available at http://hdl.handle.net/1822/74283 [22.03.2022].

 

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