Covid-19: is the child maintenance payment affected?
Within marital relationship both parents have a moral and legal obligation to financially support their children while they are growing up; inside or outside the marital relationship. Child maintenance usually entails regular financial payments made towards a child’s everyday living expenditure including education and leisure time. Payments are regular and their non-performance may lead to […]
Italian separation and virtual infidelity
Separation might be the initial step in the divorce process or it may serve the purpose of re-determine marriage perspectives. A separation process can be informally initiated, or there can be a legal separation certified by formal separation agreement filed with the court. As for a divorce separation may include provisions for alimony, children custody […]
Italian separation and infidelity: a case study
Marital separation occurs when married spouses stop living together without getting divorced. Separation might be the initial step in the divorce process or it may serve the purpose of re-determine marriage perspectives. A separation process can be informally initiated, or there can be a legal separation certified by formal separation agreement filed with the court. As for a divorce separation may […]
Italian separation agreement and dwelling assignment
In the event spouses’ separation agreement also involves the assignment of properties, the contract must be authenticated by a Public Service Officer. In the present case, spouses agreed to the separation plus the assignment of property shares. In such case, the Public Service Officer has authenticated the separation agreement with a standard signature without pointing […]
Italian separation law and spouse’s visiting rights.
According to the Italian legislation, separation does not imply the dissolution of the matrimonial ties. However, separation entails the dissolution of marital fidelity and cohabitation duty. Moreover, separation is a temporary measure so that spouses may reconcile their positions. Italian separation proceeding affects personal and economic status of spouses apart from affecting future relationships between […]