Treatise on Parental Responsibility

By Mauricio Luis Mizrahi

The work is the result of the author's work as a Judge of the National Chamber of Civil Appeals, and more than 50 years of work in the field.

This publication brings to fruition the author's ambitious project, which was to develop a Treatise on Parental Responsibility which analyses all the institutes at stake, and which contains two major virtues. 

One, the elaboration of a treatise with great completeness and depth, in which all the questions concerning the subject, its vicissitudes and twists and turns are analysed. The other is that it is at the same time an essentially practical and very useful work for judges, lawyers and those dedicated to the subject. 

The Treaty - almost exclusively - studies living Argentine law, the law that governs us, with the examination of an important amount of jurisprudence and doctrine; all headed by the rulings of the Supreme Court of Justice and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights; to which are added the numerous general observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child.

The treatise consists of three volumes. The first is devoted to parental conflicts, personal care of children and the deprivation and suspension of parental responsibility. The second deals with communication regimes and the metamorphosis that has taken place in this field, family violence, parental alienation and judicial measures to make parent-child contacts effective. Finally, the third covers the best interests of the child, listening to children, their intervention in court and the family process. In short, an essential work for the student of family law.