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Adoption and foster care: differences under Italian Law

One of the main concerns of the family aiming at fostering a child is to explain what it means “to be available to foster” and the differences between fostering and adoption. Although both adoption and foster care deal with the assistance of a child, the requirements and legal effects are very different. Foster care is temporary […]

Italian citizenship by marriage

If you are a foreign citizen or a stateless person and you marry an Italian citizen, according to Italian Law, you are eligible to obtain the so-called Italian citizenship by marriage. Requirements Italian citizenship by marriage can be obtained when one of the spouses is Italia.            Under Italian Law, the non-Italian […]

No alimony for short marriage

If the marriage has not lasted long and the spouse is young and working, then in the event of a divorce, alimony may be not assigned. According to the recent ruling of the Italian Supreme Court, the factors to be considered in order to recognize the assignment of alimony to the spouse are several: The […]

Registration of birth certificate with two fathers, the denial of the Supreme Court

The Italian Supreme Court has ruled that the Italian civil registries shall not register foreign acts that recognize the relationship of filiation between a child born through surrogacy and his non-biological parent, in contradiction with what has been recognized by other courts before.  Therefore, homosexual couples who have had a child abroad born with surrogacy […]

The consequences of divorce

Once the divorce judgement has been issued this is recorded in the Civil Registry of the place where the marriage was registered and it becomes effective between the former spouses. The main effect of divorce is the dissolution of the marriage bond. Although in case of religious marriage while the termination of civil effects takes […]