Family law consists of the key norms that govern personal and property relations within the family. The areas of law that family law covered varied over time as the underlying understanding of the social concept of the family changed. In the early modern period, following ancient models, the family was understood broadly as an economic unit to which every member of household contributed. The definition of the family in the Codex Maximilianeus Bavaricus Civilis of 1756 (part 1, chap. 4 § 1…