Da repercussão da súmula n. 358 do Superior Tribunal de Justiça nas obrigações alimentares

Abstract

This monograph aims to analyze the repercussion of Súmula n. 358 of the Superior Court of Justice in maintenance obligations. Brazilian society still has deep social inequalities, and it is incumbent upon the Government to take measures to assist those most in need. Because of the impossibility of providing for the sustenance of all those in need, the State imposed on the relatives a reciprocal duty of assistance. Hence the parents' duty to provide for the support of their children, whose cessation does not occur at the mere advent of adulthood. We will therefore analyze the social and, especially, legal repercussion of the food supply to the eldest son, emphasizing the importance of the binomial necessity-possibility so that the alimentary obligation meets the principle of proportionality.