Programa pai presente como instrumento de efetivação da paternidade socioafetiva

Abstract

The present study discusses the importance of the Pai Presente, a program conceived by the National Justice Counsil aiming to assure to human person the fundamental right to paternity according to the precepts of the dignity of the human person that covers family relations. Nonetheless, the norms of the program related to cases of biological paternity disregard the new constitutional concept of family which is derived from ties of affection. Some normative improvement of the Program is necessary to reach out to cases of socio-affective paternity that identified during the implementation of the project, in order to assure to socioaffective children important legal and psychological effects, resulting from the establishment of paternity in compliance with the principle of isonomy of the state of affiliation. Based on the problem caused by the lack of a specific norm, the research identifies the target audience of the Program and seeks to understand the reasons that made it impossible to recognize the biological paternity in the processes and, in the end, finds a large number of cases of socioaffective paternity that did not have the proper jurisdictional care. Thus, considering the relevance of the bond of affection as a new criterion for determining paternity, a normative development is proposed to regulate cases of socioaffective paternity within the scope of the Pai Presente Program.