Burocracia, família e políticas públicas: a multiparentalidade socioafetiva em cartórios do Distrito Federal

Abstract

The present work has as its core objective an analysis of the practices of notary agents in the procedure for recognition of multiparental socio-affective families. Inspired by the “counter service sociology” approach to an analysis of bureaucracy, the study focused on counter operations for users of services that were originally the responsibility of the State, but which were delegated to notaries. The study presents field research in notary offices in the Federal District, with the 2nd Notary Office of Brasília/DF and the 3rd Notary Office of Taguatinga/DF being elected as representatives - chosen due to the disparity in the development index of the administrative regions. The necessary doctrinal basis for understanding aspects of state organization, bureaucracy and family concepts is presented throughout the study. The result and discussion about the measured data is of special importance, especially regarding users, level of knowledge, agents' performance and possible obstacles to the effectiveness of the measure. Thus, the work achieves its purpose in exposing a relevant social theme, but little explored, whether in the field of Social Sciences or in the field of Family Rights, proposing to the end a deepening of the hypotheses verified, with effective action by the legislative power with the consequent propagation of knowledge about such modality for the population as a whole.