Keywords
Common-Law patrimonial society
marriage contracts
civil union economical regimen
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Abstract
The present paper includes the results of a research project titled ‘The Making of Contracts in Common-Law Marriages’, the purpose of which was to answer the following question: At what moments may permanent partners sign a common-law marriage contract? Based on the hypothetical consideration that such moments may be: before starting the common-law marriage, before constituting the common-law patrimonial company or just after constituting it, a descriptive type of research was used, together with a field design that allowed for the recollection of the necessary information from all the notaries in the Circle of Bogotá, through the application of a tool. We also resorted to a bibliographical design for the gathering of secondary data, the main sources of which were doctrine, legislation and jurisprudence. The analysis carried out both quantitatively and qualitatively allowed us to establish that there is a legislative absence regarding the moment in which the mentioned contract may be constituted, which is why public scriptures were found that had been signed at different timesThis journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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