Multiparentalidade e efeitos jurídicos de seu reconhecimento

Abstract

The aim of this work is to discuss multiple parenthood and also the effect of its recognition in the juridical ambit. Over decades, the definition of family has passed through innumerable changes which recognized several family arrangements as entity. Consequently, it has been necessary the adaptation of Brazilian Law to take Evolution into legislative system. Due to juridical impasses towards these modifications, multiple parenthood appears. It contemplates the human person’s dignity principle and privileges the interests of children and teens, by not defining parenthood on a single way, which consequently changes the juridical effects of filiation. Therefore, bibliographical, jurisprudential, legislative and doctrinal researches were used to provide better and greater information about the subject. The deductive method was also used, starting from the premise of the family as the basic nucleus of the society and arriving at the multiparentality as a structure validated by the affection, analyzing the multiple ancestry and examining the moral and patrimonial effects deriving therefrom, approaching to the end of the validity and effectiveness of this new modality of family.