Estudio comparado y socio-jurídico de la unión de hecho en Ecuador y Bulgaria

Abstract

In the latest reforms to the Civil Code, published in the Second Supplement to the Official Registry 526 of June 19, 2015, taking into account the rights of freedom contemplated in article 68 of the Constitution of the Republic introduces changes to the regime of the society of fact, by increasing the legal protection of common-law union, generating property purposes similar to marriage; to social security; in relation to the income tax. Determines the presumption on the form of the union: stable and monogamous for the minimum period of two years. It makes it an institution of Family Law, and is exposed in the will of the law; has constitutional support, differing only in the formal aspects with respect to marriage. However, there remain several issues to be addressed such as the right of the cohabiting person to congruous foods, the suspension of parental authority and the recognition of children. The common-law union is a legal institution created and accepted by Ecuadorian law, granted legal security and protection to its members. Not so in Bulgaria, article 46 of its Constitution and article 6 of its family code, very clearly establish that marriage is a free union between a man and a woman and that only civil marriage is legal, does not admit the union of done in its legal regulations.