An approximation to patrimonial protection for handicapped people

Abstract

In the context of Spain’s amazing legal progress concerning handicapped people, the Act Nr. 41/2003 (November 18th), about patrimonial protection of handicapped people, has an important place. It deals with the economic custody of the handicapped persons from a private law’s point of view (id est, apart from the welfare role of the State), involving important modifications in some classical legal institutions, such as some belonging to inheritance’s law. It also created an ex novo contract instruments of great legal importance, particularly the protected patrimony for a handicapped person.