Unmarried parents and unmarried couples – ability to regulate parental responsibilities at Civil Registry Offices

Law no. 5/2017 was published in the Portuguese official gazette Diário da República on 2 March. This new law establishes the rules on regulation of parental responsibilities by mutual agreement at Civil Registry Offices in cases of de facto separation and dissolution of non-marital partnerships, and cases of parents who are neither married nor in a non-marital partnership.