SOCIO-AFFECTIVE AFFILIATION AND MULTIPARENTALITY Gabriel Guimarães dos Santos, Patrícia Gorisch

Abstract

This article aims to analyze and study Socioaffective Filiation in the Brazilian legal system. To this end, a timeline will be initially drawn demonstrating the changes in the concept of family and filiation in our legal system. Then, a brief analysis will be made of a specific case, in which in 2007, the STJ understood that the recognition of paternity is valid if it reflects the lasting existence of the socioaffective bond and, based on this premise, overturned the decision of the Federal District Court, which in turn understood differently. The effects and consequences resulting from socioaffective filiation will be exposed, as well as important points in relation to the vote given by the rapporteur of the aforementioned case will be analyzed. Finally, this article will enter the field of multiparenthood, analyzing the presence of socioaffective filiation when biological filiation is already present or vice versa.