D. Pedro Chaparro Matamoros, student of the 1st edition of MUDEJ, has defended his thesis on the attribution of the use of family housing in cases of family crisis.

The former student of the Master's Degree in Law, Business and Justice (1st edition), Mr. Pedro Chaparro Matamoros, Research Staff in Training F.P.U. in the Department of Civil Law of the Universitat de València, brilliantly defended his doctoral thesis on Monday 30 January 2017, in a ceremony that took place at 12 noon in the Vicente L. MontésPenadés room, attached to the aforementioned department. The event was attended by numerous colleagues from the Department and, in general, from the Faculty of Law of the Universitat de València, as well as professors from other Spanish universities.

The doctoral thesis, entitled "Right of use and family housing: its judicial attribution in cases of family crisis", was directed by Prof. Dr. José Ramón de Verda y Beamonte, Professor of Civil Law at theUniversitat de València, Director of the Permanent Research Group of the Universitat de València ‘Person and Family’, and President of the Ibero-American Institute of Legislation and Jurisprudence (IDIBE).

With regard to the content, the thesis proposes the need to replace the classic criterion of attribution of the use of the family dwelling contained in article 96.I CC (that is, attribution to the spouse who has been granted custody of the minor children), with other criteria that are more in keeping with the current social reality, in which single-parent custody is giving way to the growing granting of shared custody.

The Tribunal that evaluated the doctoral thesis was composed of: Prof. Dr. Silvia Díaz Alabart, Professor of Civil Law at the Complutense University of Madrid, as President; Prof. Dr. Gabriele CarapezzaFiglia, Professor of Civil Law at the L.U.M.S.A. University. (Palermo, Italy), who acted as Member; and Prof. Salvador Carrión Olmos, Professor of Civil Law at the University of Valencia, acting as Secretary. All of them showed the suggestive contributions and conclusions of the author of the thesis, undoubtedly essential to approach a subject of maximum relevance and topicality, while highlighting the magnificent oral defense carried out and the quality and extension of the apparatus of quotations and jurisprudence used in the writing of the same. Consequently, the members of the Tribunal unanimously awarded the thesis the distinction of Outstanding Cum Laude and International Mention.

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