Elise Goossens

Elise Goossens
University of Antwerp | UA · Faculty of Law

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Introduction
I am an assistant professor of civil law in context at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). My research covers comparative family and family property law; and private law and gender.

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Published open access in F. Swennen, E. Goossens and T. Van Hof, Rethinking Law’s Families and Family Law, Edward Elgar 2024 (https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/book/9781035338412/9781035338412.xml). The authors analyse four paradigm shifts in contemporary family law. First, the declining importance of marriage has left family law in search of...
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Tijdschrift voor Privaatrecht 2023, 405-448. In 2018-2019 analyseerden wij samen met 150 masterstudenten Familiaal vermogensrecht aan de KU Leuven 778 recente vonnissen en arresten inzake de vermogensrechtelijke gevolgen van de feitelijke samenwoning. Het onderzoek toonde ten eerste aan dat het merendeel van de gedingen tussen (voormalige) feiteli...
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Résumé Qu’est-ce qu’un parent ? La réponse à cette question est devenue complexe ces derniers temps. L’émergence de nouvelles constellations familiales a incité de nombreuses juridictions à reconsidérer prudemment le concept même de parent(alit)é. En Belgique, la catégorie de la parenté légale est devenue plus inclusive au cours des dernières décen...
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Western jurisdictions have adopted remarkably diverging legal approaches to address unmarried cohabitation, ranging between contractual approaches, registered partnerships, and default regimes. This article explores to what extent the large diversity in cohabitation law is prompted by socio-demographic factors, legal tradition and family ideology....
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There can be no doubt that both substantive family and succession law engage in significant interaction with private international law, and, in particular, the European Union instruments in the field. While it is to be expected that substantive law heavily influences private international law instruments, it is increasingly evident that this influe...
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One of the most controversial elements in the Succession Regulation (SR), is the use of the European Certificate of Succession (ECS) for property registration. Article 69, 5 SR establishes the ECS as a valid document for the recording of succession property in the Member States’ registers, whereas at the same time, it makes a reservation for Articl...
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In Belgium, as in many European jurisdictions, marriage and registered partnership are subject to different legal rules. In this contribution, it is analyzed whether the difference in treatment between these relationship regimes is still justified. Registered partnership is not conceived uniformly throughout Europe. This is reflected in the judgeme...

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