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La Declaración De La Parte Como Medio De Prueba, Felipe Marín Verdugo
La Declaración De La Parte Como Medio De Prueba, Felipe Marín Verdugo
Felipe Marín Verdugo
Chilean Family and Labor procedures went from a written procedure to a hearing-based procedure, but judges are still "thinking" within the written procedure scope. This paper identifies one of the consequences of this approach: they are wrongly excluding parties as witnesses. The paper will argue againt this practice.
Funcionamiento De Los Tribunales De Familia De Santiago, Felipe Marín Verdugo, Erick Ríos, Claudio Fuentes
Funcionamiento De Los Tribunales De Familia De Santiago, Felipe Marín Verdugo, Erick Ríos, Claudio Fuentes
Felipe Marín Verdugo
The Chilean government launched new family courts in October 2005. This was the second major judicial reform in Chile after the Criminal Procedure reform in 2000. After few months, the system collapsed. After analyzing the reasons of the failure, a new bill was passed in September 2008 with modifications to the family law system. Also, the Chilean Supreme Court elaborated internal regulations aiming to fix the main problems. At the beginning of the 2010 some said that the situation was overcome. The goal of this report was to check whether this was true.