The principle of affection in family law is already widely recognized by Brazilian jurisprudence and doctrine, so much so that it has supported historic decisions in our Supreme Court, among which we can highlight Extraordinary Appeal 898,060, General Repercussion 622, judged by the STF and which recognized multi-parenthood, the possibility of a biological and affective bond existing simultaneously.
Along the same lines, the judge of the 6th Family and Succession Court of the Central Civil Court of São Paulo recently decided when he ruled in favor of the initial request to declare socio-affective grandparenthood.
In this specific case, the biological maternal grandfather had been married to the affective grandmother for more than twenty years, and even before the minor’s birth, all friends and family already recognized his wife in the role of maternal grandmother.
The link was established through a psychosocial study and recognized in a sentence, ordering the rectification of the minor’s birth certificate for the purpose of including the affective maternal grandmother while maintaining the biological maternal grandmother.
