Legislative and jurisprudential analysis of extramarriage unions in italy. an example for the spanish legal system?

Abstract

The Italian Legal System has drawn up the ”Legge 20 maggio 2016, n. 76. Regolamentazione delle unioni civil tra persone dello stesso sesso e disciplina delle convivenze”, regulating civil unions between people of the same sex and de facto coexistence between people of both the same and different sex, introducing the legal regime of two new family models in a careful and exhaustive manner. In relation to the Spanish Legal System, we would like to point out that these institutions are similar to equal marriage and the institution of domestic partnerships, respectively. The Italian regulations can be a model for the Spanish legislator to follow when updating and systematizing the regulations on de facto couples.