Knowledge

04.12.2025

Maintenance Obligations: once the child, now the “parent”

The obligation for children to pay maintenance to their parents is less known but increasingly debated. When need and law intersect, surprising decisions arise — as Bárbara Figueiredo’s article explains.
Family and Succession Bárbara Figueiredo EN Família e sucessões
14.10.2025

Common Construction on Separate Property — Quid Iuris?

Building together on one spouse’s land raises legal questions of ownership — as explained by Bárbara Figueiredo
Family and Succession Bárbara Figueiredo EN Família e sucessões
23.05.2025

Domestic Violence and Succession Indignity

Should a convicted domestic abuser be allowed to inherit from their victim? This article by Bárbara Figueiredo explores the exclusion of domestic violence from succession indignity cases
Family and Succession Bárbara Figueiredo EN Família e sucessões
28.04.2025

On the Duty to Provide Maintenance

The obligation to provide maintenance can reverse over a lifetime and create difficult family dilemmas. In which cases can this duty be refused? Bárbara Figueiredo explains in a piece originally published in Diário de Coimbra
Family and Succession Bárbara Figueiredo EN Família e sucessões
03.03.2025

Donations Between Spouses

Opinion piece by Bárbara Figueiredo in the Diário de Coimbra newspaper
Family and Succession Bárbara Figueiredo EN Família e sucessões

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