Separate Property and Family Self-Determination in Catalonia: A Peaceful Model Under a Change?

Abstract

This working paper evaluates and analyses the available data about marital contracts in Catalonia and Spain during the 20th Century and relates them to family property statistics. From a positive standpoint, the article suggests a family self-determination model structurally linked to the marital property regime.

The second part of the working paper addresses a normative approach to the conclusion of marital contracts and puts forward some hypotheses intended to explain its 600% exponential increase in Catalonia in the last three years.

Keywords: Family law, Marital Property Regimes, Separate property, self-determination