Act No. 7.841 of 17 October 1989 repealing Article 358 of Act No. 3.071 (the Civil Code) of 1 January 1916 and amending provisions of Act No. 6.515 of 26 December 1977
Annual Review of Population Law 16: 113
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0364-3417 PMID: 12344047 Document Number: 378816
This Act repeals Article 358 of the Brazilian Civil Code, which provides that the children of incestuous or adulterous relationships cannot be legally acknowledged. The Act also shortens from 5 to 2 years the time that must pass before a spouse can bring suit to have a de facto separation converted into a divorce and provides that one of the grounds upon which one spouse can contest the request of the other spouse to have a legal separation converted into a divorce is the fact that the legal separation has lasted less than 1 year. Previously, the time period was 3 years.