Estudio comparado y socio jurídico de la unión de hecho desde el caso ecuatoriano con los países de América Latina y/o la Unión Europea

Abstract

A study of social nature attached to the legal in the process of advancing the law, shows the history that the de facto union since its inception in Rome was considered as a society of lower rank compared with the institution of marriage. The time and the demands of a society eager to have the freedom to choose their way of life, became the best ally for those who decided to live together in a de facto union, in this sense the legislator of our country focused on changes decided to legislate favor of those who chose to live together in a de facto society. The society in the world, especially the European one was not far from the changes, they went further, by demanding that not only the de facto union between a man and a woman be accepted, but that there be freedom to form a de facto society between people of the same sex, which had resistance from moralistic and religious groups, who saw it as a danger to good manners and above all to oppose the laws of divinity.