Legal dictionary: family, criminal and inheritance law

Form of acceptance of inheritance that allows liability for hereditary debts to be limited to the inheritance assets, complying with legal requirements.

Review of the amount of a pension in accordance with the formula, periodicity and date established by the applicable agreement or resolution. The CPI is one of the indices that can be used.

Procedural approach by which criminally relevant facts are attributed to a person and the corresponding judicial response is requested.

Assets that belong individually to one of the spouses within the community property regime in accordance with legal rules.

Agreements formalized in public deed to establish or modify the matrimonial property regime and other provisions permitted by law.

Family needs and expenses to which spouses must contribute according to the rules applicable to their marriage.

Family organization formula in which the children remain in a home and the parents alternate living with them according to the planned schedule.

Agreement that includes the measures of a separation or divorce. Its content and control depend on family circumstances and the route used.

Concepts of process expenses that the law qualifies as costs, which may include certain fees, rights and disbursements.

Account used by parents to make contributions and meet children's expenses in accordance with the agreed or established organization.

Modality in which both parents assume daily care during established periods. It does not necessarily imply dividing time in halves.

Organization of daily care in which child custody is attributed to one of the parents, with the relationships and stays that correspond to the other.

Writing by which a claim is formulated before a court and a judicial response is requested on a matter.

Communication to the competent authority of facts that may have criminal relevance, so that the corresponding action can be assessed.

Right of the minor to be heard in the areas and procedures that affect him, with the guarantees provided by law.

Dissolution of marriage that ends the bond between spouses. It can be requested jointly or by one of them, with the applicable legal requirements.

Judicial divorce procedure in which a joint proposal of all the measures that should regulate the breakup is not presented.

Divorce in which the spouses present an agreed proposal to regulate the consequences of the breakup.

Procedure aimed at demanding compliance with family obligations included in a resolution or title that allows their execution.

Legal link between a person and their parents, with the rights and obligations established by law.

Expenses of children whose treatment requires checking whether they are included in the ordinary pension and what the agreement or resolution establishes.

Organization of daily care of children after separation. Its implementation must meet the needs of each minor.

Set of assets, rights and obligations of a person that are not extinguished by his death and are transmitted in accordance with inheritance rules.

Criterion that requires valuing and giving priority to the rights and needs of the minor in decisions that affect them.

Orderly list of assets, obligations and credits that must be identified to study a property transaction, an inheritance or a liquidation.

Part of the inheritance that the law reserves for certain heirs when the legitimacy system of the common Civil Code is applicable.

Operations to determine and distribute the marital assets once the company is dissolved, taking into account its assets, debts and credits.

Temporary decisions that organize certain family issues while the marriage process is being processed, or before starting it in legal cases.

Review of family measures when circumstances change in the terms required by law. The change and its impact on the family must be valued.

Judicial resolution that can bring together protective measures in cases of domestic violence provided for by law, including criminal and, when appropriate, civil measures.

Responsibilities and powers of parents with respect to their non-emancipated minor children. It includes their care, education, representation and protection.

Compensation that may correspond to the spouse when separation or divorce causes an economic imbalance in the terms provided by law.

Contribution to the needs of those who have the right to receive maintenance. Its scope may include sustenance, accommodation, clothing, health care and training in legal terms.

Situation in which several people own the same asset in installments, without each installment being equivalent to a specific physical part.

Activity and means used in a procedure to prove relevant facts, in accordance with the applicable rules.

A means of proof based on specialized knowledge that can help the court assess relevant facts or circumstances.

Means of challenge provided by law to request the review of a resolution before the corresponding body.

Measures that organize the relationships, stays and communications between the children and the parent with whom they do not usually live, with the appropriate limitations.

Set of rules that organizes the property relations of marriage, in accordance with the legal provisions and the valid agreements of the spouses.

Judicial resolution that decides a process or an issue in the cases provided for by law.

Marital economic regime in which, with the applicable legal rules, each spouse retains ownership and management of their assets.

Cessation of marital coexistence without there necessarily being a resolution or formalization of legal separation.

Formal situation that suspends the common life of the spouses and allows their family and economic effects to be regulated, maintaining the marital bond.

Marital economic regime in which certain earnings and benefits become common. Its dissolution and liquidation require identifying assets, debts and possible reimbursements.

Act by which a person disposes of all or part of his or her assets after his or her death, within legal limits.

Attribution of use of the home after a breakup, taking into account the applicable rules and family circumstances. Attribution of use does not convey ownership.

Right to use and enjoy other people's property with the scope, duration and obligations that correspond according to its title and the law.

Within the scope of Organic Law 1/2004, violence exerted on women by those who are or have been their spouses or are or have been linked to them by similar emotional relationships.