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The 16th Social Court of Valencia has recognised the right of a mother of a single-parent family to enjoy the additional eight weeks of paternity leave to care for her child, on the grounds that the child "cannot see this time of care guaranteed by law reduced because of having only one parent".

The courts have recognised an orphan's pension for a child whose mother has died and whose father's whereabouts are unknown.

In order to obtain the widow's or widower's pension, the constitution of the domestic partnership can be accredited by a legally valid means and not only by the register of domestic partners or by a notarial document.

In a mortgage foreclosure, the Sixth Section of the Provincial Court of Valencia has declared in its Order of 9 April, the nullity of the clause-IRPH provided for in a mortgage loan deed signed in 2013.

The contracting parties cannot choose which Notary Public is to carry out their file, but must go to the Notary Public's Association of the place where at least one of them is registered and ask for one to be assigned to them.

This is what the Barcelona Provincial Court has ruled in a recent judgement, in which it condemns the bank to assume the total costs of a lawsuit, despite the fact that part of the consumer's requests were rejected. The aim of this criterion, the Court reasons, is to avoid a dissuasive effect on other affected parties to go to court.