Projects
RETHINKIN – Family and family law studies in the Low Countries University of Antwerp
The transfer of the family company to the next generation: a comparative study on the company law, family property law and tax law aspects KU Leuven
Considering the importance of the continuity of family businesses for the European economy, the aim of this project is to perform a comparativelegal study on the intergenerational transfer of unlisted companies with limited liability. The relevant rules of Belgian, Dutch, French and English company law, family property law and tax law will be critically analysed.
First, we examine how company law supports the transfer of family ...
Families on the Move: The Coordination between international family law and migration law Ghent University
FAMIMOVE’s general objective is to contribute to the effective and coherent application of the EU acquis in the field of international
family law, in particular by ensuring more awareness of international child protection instruments applicable to migrant children. To
this end, the project seeks to implement the recommendations of the studies published in June 2017 by the European Parliament’s
Committee on Legal Affairs ...
The European Union and Party Autonomy in Private International Family Law KU Leuven
A paradigm shift, from State control to self-determination of individuals, is currently occurring within our society. Not so long ago, divorces, same-sex marriages, registered partnerships, birth control or in vitro fertilization were hardly conceivable whereas it is now accessible, or at least debated, in most European countries. This has been largely influenced by the fact that citizens request more liberty to arbitrate their own existence ...
The right to family reunification in a multi-layered legal order: implications of the interaction between European Union and national law Ghent University
This project analyses the implications of the interaction between EU and national law as far as the right to family reunification is concerned. After an analysis of the various relevant legal instruments (ECHR, EU directives on family reunification and citizenship), the impact of evolutions in EU legislation and jurisprudence on the scope for national Member State action and the potential for reverse discrimination and legal uncertainty is ...
Autonomy in Vertical Family Law Ghent University
This research will create a new legal framework for parent-child relations based on an analysis of the way autonomy is shaped. That framework will provide consistency in the legal consequences of autonomous acts, striking a fair balance between the principle of autonomy and conflicting interests
of both individuals and society, and is complemented with appropriate remedies for noncompliance.
Family Law Regulation of Surrogacy in Belgium Ghent University
The project aims at providing scientific support for the creation of a legal framework for surrogacy. The numerous problems which arise when a woman gives birth to a child for another person, are approached from a perspective of both domestic and private international law. The legal scope withing which surrogacy agreements can be reached and enforced, will be clarified, as well as the means of establishing the parentage of the prospective ...
Family Law Matters Ghent University
Applied research into the practice of inspection and law enforcement within the policy area of Welfare, Public Health and Family. KU Leuven
The different - public and private - actors responsible for the supply of social care and assistance need to focus on the quality of care. The government, charged with the (constitutional) responsibility for the policy on care and its implementation, should encourage this. One of the guiding instruments that is at the public authorities’ disposal to achieve this, is the supervision of the social care institutions and facilities.
The ...