When a person who is born or resides in a certain autonomous community they are entitled to a certain civil neighbourhood, which is usually the common civil neighbourhood. It is or may be different in the case of autonomous communities which have their own civil law, as is the case in Catalonia, for example.
First of all, it should be said that civil neighbourhood must be understood as a link to certain laws, those of personal law, to which the person in question is subject. Having said that, it is necessary to understand when it corresponds to an individual – in the case of Catalonia, it is to have or acquire Catalan civil neighbourhood.
All those people born in Catalonia have this type of civil neighbourhood by default, as long as their parents have Catalan civil neighbourhood. Likewise, all those people who have been continuously residing in Catalonia for more than 10 years also have this status.
In the case of adopted children, they have Catalan civil neighbourhood by default. This is not the case for people born or adopted in Catalonia by parents (biological or adoptive) who do not have Catalan residence. These people must formally request their wish to acquire this type of residence at the Civil Registry. The same applies to people who have been living continuously in Catalonia for more than 2 years, but who have been resident there for less than 10 years.
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