C-595 de 1996
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Reporting justice Jorge Arango Mejía
✓Claimant Rocio Esmeralda Arias Paez
Topics and subtopics of the ruling
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- Inconstitucionalidad
- Inconstitucionalidad
- Inconstitucionalidad
- Inconstitucionalidad
- Presunción de legitimidad
- Clasificación
- Vulneración
- Existencia
- Inconstitucionalidad
- Modificación
- Inconstitucionalidad
- Presunción de legitimidad
What it decided
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Operative part (Resuelve)
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See the operative part (4 points)
- Primero. Decláranse EXEQUIBLES los artículos 38 y 47 del Código Civil.
- Segundo. Decláranse INEXEQUIBLES los artículos 39 y 48 del Código Civil.
- Tercero. Expresamente se advierte que la declaración de inexequibilidad de los artículos 39 y 48 no implica la desaparición de la afinidad extramatrimonial, es decir, la originada en la unión permanente a que se refieren los artículos 126 y 179 de la Constitución, entre otros. Para todos los efectos legales, la afinidad extramatrimonial sigue existiendo.
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