Abstract
The enactment of 1991 Political Constitution led to structural changes in the concept of family in Colombia during the last decades, incorporating an inclusive, diverse, and respectful approach. As a result, several constitutional acts have broaden the scope of this concept, establishing that a family is created when human beings freely decide to develop a life project together, regardless the contractual model of such union. This paper will study the legal doctrine and some constitutional acts that have been essential in the transformation process of the concept of family in Colombian civil legislation. Moreover, reference will be made to the challenges that family law must assume on the way to understand this concept and the protection of personal and economic relationships. Our work will defend the understanding of a family as a type of association in which the values and motivations of its members –who coincide in their way of seeing life, and therefore gather around the construction of a common project– make solidarity and affection prevail.
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