{"id":1232,"date":"2025-06-06T14:43:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T17:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devivocastro.com.br\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2026-01-29T16:52:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T19:52:30","slug":"bem-de-familia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devivo.letsite.com.br\/en\/bem-de-familia\/","title":{"rendered":"The Superior Court of Justice (STJ) has ruled that a family home mortgaged on it can only be seized if the debt benefited the family unit."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span dir=\"auto\">The 2nd Section of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ), when judging THEME 1.261, defined that the exception to the unseizability of family property only applies when\u00a0<\/span><strong><span dir=\"auto\">it is proven that the debt benefited the family entity.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">As a rule, family property is protected by law (Federal Law No. 8.009\/90) and cannot be seized,\u00a0<\/span><u><span dir=\"auto\">but there is an exception when it is voluntarily given as collateral<\/span><\/u><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">The problem raised by the Reporting Justice Antonio Carlos Ferreira when the topic was addressed was the lack of consensus on what this exceptional situation would be that would result in the validity of the seizure of the property by the creditor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">In this sense, it was defined that\u00a0<\/span><strong><u><span dir=\"auto\">the exception to the unseizability<\/span><\/u><\/strong><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0of family property voluntarily given as mortgage collateral by the company&#8217;s partners only applies when it is\u00a0<\/span><strong><u><span dir=\"auto\">proven that the debt benefited the family entity<\/span><\/u><\/strong><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">And the burden of proof may fall on the\u00a0<\/span><strong><u><span dir=\"auto\">debtor<\/span><\/u><\/strong><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0or the\u00a0<\/span><strong><u><span dir=\"auto\">creditor<\/span><\/u><\/strong><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0, depending on the situation, namely:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><u><span dir=\"auto\">CREDITOR<\/span><\/u><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0: if the asset given as collateral belongs to one of the company&#8217;s partners, it will be up to the creditor to demonstrate that the debt was used for the benefit of the family;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><u><span dir=\"auto\">DEBTOR<\/span><\/u><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0: if, on the other hand, the only partners of the company are also the only owners of the property, it will be up to them to demonstrate that the debt did not benefit their family.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2nd Section of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ), when judging THEME 1.261, defined that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devivo.letsite.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devivo.letsite.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devivo.letsite.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devivo.letsite.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devivo.letsite.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/devivo.letsite.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1974,"href":"https:\/\/devivo.letsite.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions\/1974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devivo.letsite.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devivo.letsite.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devivo.letsite.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devivo.letsite.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}