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Collateral in fifth degree lacks standing to challenge adoption unless proving concrete moral or patrimonial interest.

Case Number 062725
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Jurisdiction Portugal (PT)
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Outcome Dismissed
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The court dismissed the appeal by a majority vote, ruling that a collateral in the fifth degree lacks inherent standing to challenge an adoption. The plaintiff argued for intervention as a person with a moral or patrimonial interest, but the court held such interest must be concrete, legitimate, and actual. Consequently, the abstract status of being a distant relative was insufficient to grant procedural legitimacy without specific proof of a tangible stake in the adoption's validity.

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PERFILHAÇÃO IMPUGNAÇÃO LEGITIMIDADE

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fifth degree collateral adoption standing procedural legitimacy concrete moral interest patrimonial stake impugnar perfilhação legitimidade processual

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Art. 1836, n. 2 do Codigo Civil

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[Nº CONVENCIONAL] JSTJ00005934

[Nº DO DOCUMENTO] SJ196911110627252

[PRIVACIDADE] 1

[REFERENCIA DE PUBLICACAO] BMJ N191 ANO1969 PAG275

[TEXTO INTEGRAL] N

[URL] https://www.dgsi.pt/jstj.nsf/954f0ce6ad9dd8b980256b5f003fa814/7F0FD82A0BEE7FD1802568FC00399AFB?OpenDocument

SUMÁRIO

I - Um colateral em quinto grau do perfilhante, so por o ser, não tem legitimidade para impugnar a perfilhação, ao abrigo do artigo 1836, n. 2, do Codigo Civil.

II - O referido colateral so podera intentar a acção como "qualquer outra pessoa que tenha interesse moral ou patrimonial na sua procedencia".

III - O interesse tem de ser concreto, legitimo e actual.

IV - Esse interesse tem, assim, de ser invocado e provado.