The legal provisions concerning affiliation established by the Family Code in 1984 are a great advance over our practice and customs in the Congo.
Equality children ends the discrimination that they knew before the promulgation of the Code. However in practice for all children of one father and one mother are equal, should the current law is properly applied. Indeed, many are these children out of wedlock who are abandoned by their fathers that he is sentenced by a court order payment of alimony as required by law. The same phenomenon is experienced by those children when their father died. Legitimate children and the widow being created as "vigilante" on the estate of the deceased. Given that our courts are only empowered to make legal decisions must ensure proper enforcement.
If marriages in the north, the parent of a child takes its responsibilities vis-à-vis the latter, simply because their courts vigorously enforce their civil codes. It is hoped that our rulers, in charge of these children do the same thing for our poor children born outside marriage no longer live this discrimination fostered by their father.
Ginette O.
Lawyer, Member of the network of Francophone Legal Clinics
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