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Cabo Verde (Republic of Cabo Verde / República de Cabo Verde)

Jurisdiction code: CV · Legal system: civil-law
Language(s): pt

Cabo Verde is an Atlantic African civil-law republic whose family-law framework operates under the Civil Code (Código Civil) drawing on Portuguese civil-law substantive heritage, substantially supplemented by Law 50/V/98 (Family Code) and Law 86/IV/2009 (Code of Children and Adolescents). Parental responsibility (responsabilidade parental) and child custody are governed by Family Code arts. 125-148. The Supreme Court of Justice (Tribunal Supremo de Justiça) is the apex court for civil and criminal matters; the Constitutional Court (Tribunal Constitucional) operates separate constitutional review. Family-law matters are heard at first instance in the Family and Minors' Court (Tribunal de Família e dos Menores). Psychology profession is regulated through the Cape Verdean Order of Psychologists. Cabo Verde is silent on 'parental alienation' as a statutory label; courts operate substantively under the superior-interest-of-the-child standard codified in Code of Children and Adolescents art. 4. Cabo Verde acceded to the Hague Convention 1980 effective 1 January 2018.

PA recognition status

  • Statutory: silent
  • Apex court position: no-apex-position
  • Professional regulator position: silent

Statutory framework

  • Family Code Law 50/V/98 arts. 125-148 — Family Code — Parental responsibility and custody (1998) — https://www.tribunalsupremo.cv/
  • Federal Family Code drawing on Portuguese civil-law substantive heritage. Arts. 125-148 govern responsabilidade parental and child custody.
  • Code of Children and Adolescents Law 86/IV/2009 — Code of Children and Adolescents (2009) — https://www.tribunalsupremo.cv/
  • Federal Code codifying superior-interest-of-the-child principle aligned with UNCRC obligations.

Apex courts

Supreme Court of Justice (Tribunal Supremo de Justiça)

https://www.tribunalsupremo.cv/

Constitutional Court (Tribunal Constitucional)

https://www.tribunalconstitucional.cv/

Professional regulators

Anonymisation convention

Cape Verdean family-court decisions are anonymised per Supreme Court practice using initials.

Key developments

  • 1998 — Federal Family Code enacted drawing on Portuguese civil-law substantive heritage.
  • 2009 — Federal Code enacted codifying superior-interest principle aligned with UNCRC obligations.
  • 2018 — Cabo Verde acceded to the Hague Convention 1980 effective 1 January 2018.

Structural findings

  • Cabo Verde operates a Portuguese-civil-law family-law framework — places Cabo Verde in the Lusophone African cluster with Mozambique, Angola, São Tomé, Portugal, Brazil, East Timor within the corpus.
  • Hague Convention 1980 accession 2018 places Cabo Verde in the Hague Atlantic African cluster alongside Mozambique.

See also

  • jurisdiction:portugal
  • jurisdiction:mozambique
  • jurisdiction:angola
  • evidence:cross-border-parental-abduction-and-pa-intersection
  • evidence:childrens-rights-paramountcy-doctrine

Sources

  1. Supreme Court of Justice — https://www.tribunalsupremo.cv/ (Supreme Court) [pt]
  2. Constitutional Court — https://www.tribunalconstitucional.cv/ (Constitutional Court) [pt]
  3. Order of Psychologists of Cabo Verde — https://www.opcv.cv/ (Order of Psychologists) [pt]

Editorial notes

  • Cabo Verde jurisdiction sidecar — civil-law Lusophone Atlantic African (Family Code 1998 + Code of Children and Adolescents 2009 + Hague Convention 1980 accession 2018).
  • PA-recognition: silent statutory + no-apex-position + silent regulator.
  • Joins Atlantic African + Lusophone + civil-law + Hague Convention clusters within the corpus.

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