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In Manifestation Aligned with Ubrajuc, Groups Advogados de Direita Brasil, Advogados do Brasil and Advocacia Independente Criticize PL No. 4/2025 by Rodrigo Pacheco, Drafted from a Preliminary Project Coordinated by Luís Felipe Salomão (STJ), Which Alters Over a Thousand Articles and Creates Around 300 New Provisions in the Civil Code of 2002, Rekindling the Debate on Family, Property, and Individual Responsibility.
On last Friday, the 17th, three lawyer movements — Advogados de Direita Brasil, Advogados do Brasil and Advocacia Independente — publicly came out in defense of the União Brasileira de Juristas Católicos (Ubrajuc), an entity that brings together judges, prosecutors, lawyers, and professors. According to the groups, the Civil Code reform proposed in the Bill No. 4/2025, authored by Senator Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG), breaks with Christian values and threatens legal certainty in the country.
This information was disclosed by “Revista Oeste”, in a report by Cristyan Costa, who obtained the note exclusively and detailed the contested points, reinforcing the perception that the Civil Code of 2002 is still in a phase of stabilization and therefore does not require such extensive revision at this time.
“Fast-Track,” More than a Thousand Articles Altered and 300 New Provisions
According to the document, the processing would have occurred “at a fast pace,” without adequate consultation with civil society, the legal profession, and the legal academy. The lawyers emphasize that there was no social demand for a reform of this magnitude. In practice, Bill No. 4/2025 alters over a thousand articles and creates around 300 new provisions in the Civil Code of 2002, numbers that, according to the entities, indicate a systemic redesign of Brazilian Civil Law.
Furthermore, the groups point out that indeterminate concepts — such as “special risk” in civil liability, and “social function of the contract” — transfer excessive power to judges, which, consequently, would increase legal uncertainty and violate the democratic principle that laws should be clear, predictable, and objective.
Family, Property, and Responsibility: The Core of the Conflict
For the entities, the project imposes a “social experimentalism” by touching on sensitive topics such as multiparentality, stable unions, and successions. According to the movements, the proposal does not reflect Brazilian society, which is predominantly Christian, because it prioritizes progressive innovations at the expense of traditional institutes, like the nuclear family, private property, and individual responsibility.
In this sense, the groups claim that the text destabilizes values that “historically structure Brazilian Civil Law,” with direct repercussions on the daily lives of families, property protection and the predictability of contracts.
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Repercussions Among Readers
The publication of the note sparked significant debate among the readers of the CPG portal, especially regarding the impacts of the reform on marriage, divorce, and family model. Many highlighted the importance of maintaining the values that structure Brazilian Civil Law.
The state is correctly and wisely secular! The secularism of the state is an undisputed principle and foundation!! However, I also believe that relevant changes in the Code of Civil Procedure, one of the most important laws in the country, which was already amended and modernized in 2015, should not be restricted to a few “enlightened” individuals in the National Congress. I believe it is essential to have broad public debate and popular participation. After all, unlike many specific laws, this Code impacts the lives of all Brazilian citizens. Therefore, it cannot and should not be processed hastily merely to cater to the political interests and personal vanity of some parliamentarians.” — Heloísa.
“Absurd, then the pre-established rules and norms for living harmoniously in social coexistence will be extinguished.
We will accept living at the will of those who dictate new rules of social coexistence.Thus, any type of coexistence will be impossible. These rules are exactly for us as social beings to limit any actions, conduct, posture, etc., that may lead to disharmony.
If this code is approved without public consultation, it will be chaos for all of society.
I am not prejudiced, but if our actions as rational human beings are not limited, we will live in the “Tower of Babel” or revert to primal times.Churches of all religions must mobilize with their believers, including myself, to prevent this from being the desire of a small group of leaders defining without prior consultation with those most affected, the people.
I want to make it clear, I have no prejudice against anyone’s choice, but the right belongs to the person to choose in common agreement with all those involved, without prejudice to the side that does not accept.
Now, by imposition, through a civil code, it will be mandatory and that’s not acceptable.It will be total chaos in the family institution and religious institutions, which are our parameters for coexistence.
Will this be the decision of the majority of the people?
Why not have a public consultation?We are already tired of decisions made without societal participation, we, the people, the majority, no one or a single group should turn something of public interest into law.
If this is the will of the majority, let it be done, but there must be a consultation.” — Rosângela Botelho.
“Throughout the centuries, the same institution that today claims to define what is “family” and “marriage” for all civil society was responsible for persecuting and condemning to death — through mechanisms such as the Inquisition — those who disagreed with its faith or doctrinal interpretation, including figures who, ironically, came to be canonized by it. A look at history, as suggested in the Book of Martyrs and the history of the Inquisition itself, exposes a trail of violence and martyrdom in the name of orthodoxy.
Additionally, criticism of the advancement of civil legislation contrasts with its own internal evolution. The Church, which today promotes the veneration of rites and images (practices that were condemned at other times in Christian history and viewed as “idolatry” by other branches), demonstrates itself to be an institution whose doctrine and practices adapt over time.
Therefore, when the Catholic Church seeks to delegitimize changes in the Civil Code aimed at ensuring equality of rights and recognizing diverse forms of union, it does so from a supposed moral authority that self-destructs in light of its history of persecution and violence. Its voice in this secular and legal debate should not carry more weight than that of any other entity in civil society, and it certainly cannot be presented as the sole guardian of the “truth” about marriage, especially when its past places it in the position of the accused, not the judge, in matters of human rights and individual freedom.” — Felipe.
The opinions reflect a common sentiment of concern and caution regarding the proposed changes in Bill No. 4/2025, which modifies over a thousand articles and creates around 300 new provisions in the Civil Code. Among the comments, there is a prevailing call for transparency, public debate, and respect for traditional values that underpin the nation’s civil legislation.
Complement to the Previous Article and Repercussions on the Portal
As a direct complement to the coverage already conducted, this report adds to the recently published article that had a significant impact here on the CPG portal regarding the position of Catholic jurists towards the reform. The continuation of the topic deepens the public debate and highlights that the discussion exceeds the academic environment, reaching lawyers throughout the country and mobilizing readers interested in the impacts of the reform on rights, duties, and guarantees.
The Role of Luís Felipe Salomão and Criticism of the Preliminary Project
The legislative proposal by Rodrigo Pacheco arises from a preliminary project coordinated by STJ Minister Luís Felipe Salomão. For critics, this origin reinforces the need for broadened transparency, public debate, and robust consultation with experts. In terms of normative governance, the revision of over a thousand articles combined with the creation of around 300 provisions would require, in the view of the movements, public hearings and qualified social participation to mitigate regulatory risks and future legal controversies.
Signatures and Reach of the Mobilization
The document is signed by Advogados de Direita Brasil, Advogados do Brasil, and Advocacia Independente, who claim to gather “tens of thousands of lawyers” from all regions. This reach, according to the groups, is the main reason to pressure Congress to expand the debate, halt changes that weaken legal certainty, and preserve the coherence of the Civil Code of 2002 in light of potential innovations disconnected from social reality.
In the face of a proposal that alters over a thousand articles and affects pillars such as protection of family, property, and life, is Brazil prepared to reform its Civil Code — or does it risk compromising centuries of legal tradition?
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Quem elaborou essa alteração mo código civil deve ter sido gerado na barriga de uma ****, pata tamanha aberração. Em que quer destruí o conceito de família e herança entre os cônjuges.
A igreja catolica e esses “lideres religiosos” deveriam ta è preocupado cim a ped0 neh? Se bem q p essa gentinha nao è viável tocar nesse assunto neh, ja q essa laia adora uma brincadeirinha infantil no sigilo, hipocritas de **** mesmo 😂😂🤣😅😇😅🤣🤣😂
Mais uma imposição absurda da esquerda que quer a qualquer custo nos empurrar sua ideologia nefasta.
Nefasta è a ped0 q a direita finge nao ver neh, afinal a ped0 crista ja foi leglizada neh bando fe hipocritas 😂🤣🤣😅😅😅🤣😂😂😂🤣🤣
Esquerda🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣???? Qual????????l