Since Chile passed its divorce law and the regulation of cohabitations act, it has been necessary to consider ways to protect what the Chilean legislation calls (lit.) ‘the weak spouse’. The ‘compensación económica’ (economic compensation) emerges then as a subjective right for the spouse or the cohabitant who has suffered an impairment due to him or her not having had a paid employment during marriage or cohabitation and has devoted him or herself to the care of the children and domestic chores instead. This article aims to present the Chilean approach to the economic compensation from a jurisprudential and doctrinal approach.... [Leer más...]