PACS – A Valid Alternative for Traditional Marriage?
PACS – A Valid Alternative for Traditional Marriage?

Summary/Abstract: The traditional family formed by legally marriage of two persons with different sexes, is frequently replaced with other forms of cohabitation, such as consensual unions, concubinaje, and PACS. Even if these new forms replace the traditional marriage only until some extent, or sometimes they represent the ante-room to these new forms, in recent years their number has raised the attention of various researchers. Given these considerations, our approach encourages a scientific analysis, in particular towards one of these alternatives to the traditional family, namely the PACS. What do we understand from the concept of PACS ? According to French researchers, The Civil Solidarity Pact (PACS) is, "a contract signed by two major individuals of different or same-sex in order to organize their common life''. For a PACS to be valid, it must be declared and then recognized as legal by the court of instance in which the applicant resides. Interesting and attractive is also the fact that the PACS-ed persons pay lower taxes to the state, as each couple is a family. Which are the advantages of this union, what social implications does it involve, which is the statistic outcome of its evolution, which are the procedures for a couple to be de-PACSed, these are just some of the questions our research will try to answer. We consider the approach of this topic, not only necessary but also useful, especially because the topic is not well known in our country, and is common knowlege that in the foreseen future, the phenomenon shall be encountered in Romania too. The imposed conclusion, is that the PACS brings a new deffinition of the couple, presenting the couple as a stable cohabitation of two individuals with different sex and passing the prejudice limit further, towards accepting the cohabitation of two persons of the same sex.

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