SANTOS, Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx. Contrato de namoro. São Paulo: Almedina, 2024. 242 p. Disponível em: xxxxx://xxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx/xxxxx/0000000000000. Acesso em: 05 jul. 2024.
SANTOS, Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx. Love in postmodernity: dating contract as a skillful instrument to achieve private autonomy and self-determination. 2023. 210f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Direito Negocial) – Centro de Estudos Sociais Aplicados, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, 2023. Society has gone through numerous transformations over the years. Changes in the social sphere had a direct impact on interpersonal and loving relationships, which began to occur more freely and dynamically. In this context, dating becomes intertwined with commom law marriage due to the proximity of both, which creates insecurities for those who want to date, but without configuring a family entity. Thus, the present work aims to analyze the dating contract, which consists of a contemporary legal transaction, and whether it has effects on the national order, with the guiding hypothesis of the research that the contract permeates the existence, validity, and effectiveness, as well as that its purpose is not prohibited by law, therefore there are no obstacles to its full effect. To do so, it starts with the analysis of affective relationships in modernity and post-modernity, enunciating the understanding of dating in previous decades and centuries and dating in its current understanding, as well as characterizing the commom law marriage and its proximity to the affair. Next, it deals with freedom within the family and its externalization through private autonomy and self-determination, passing through the principle of minimum family law and the right to free family planning. Still, objective good faith applied to family and juridic business. Finally, it defines the current nuances that require the achievement of the dating contract, its characterization as a contemporary legal business, to demonstrate that said instrument is existing, valid, and effective. The choice of theme was due to the relevance of love relationships for people, as well as in the face of latent insecurities in the present day, and the contractualization of this relationship is a skillful and efficient solution. Thus, it is concluded that the dating contract is an existing legal transaction, valid and effective, full of good faith and relevant to guaranteeing the individual's self- determination, still pointing to the requirements that must be observed to produce full effects of this contractual instrument. The research has a theoretical, exploratory, and critical nature, as well as being developed in the light of the deductive met...