The adaptation of the Civil Code of Catalonia to Law 8/2021, of June 2, which reforms civil and procedural legislation to support people with disabilities in the exercise of their legal capacity

Abstract

Law 8/2021, of June 2, carries out a deep and very relevant, substantive, and procedural reform in the field of disability, fifteen years after the UN Convention, made in New York on December 13, 2006. This work analyzes the most significant changes introduced by this new norm, which modifies the Civil Code, the Law of Voluntary Jurisdiction, and the Law of Civil Procedure. Next, this work analyzes the Decree-Law 19/2021, of August 31, by which the Civil Code of Catalonia is adapted to the reform of the judicial procedure of the capacity operated by Law 8/2021, of June 2, in order to harmonize civil and substantive legislation, proper of Catalan Civil Law, to the new paradigm, with the intention of avoiding regulatory conflicts and contradictions that may cause legal insecurity.