Os avós e a pensão alimentar. Dilemas em torno da responsabilidade avoenga e a judicialização do cuidado familiar.

The article presents reflections about the theme care and family considering the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren. It explores the way in which the justice system produces rules and seeks to discipline this relationship in a context marked by the constitution of new subjects of rights, backed by specific statutes such as the Statute of the Child and Adolescent and the Statute of the Elderly. Based on a qualitative analysis of judicial decisions as well as news published by the media on the subject, a plethora of values are presented in which the laws and avoenga food responsibility are interpreted according to specific situations, marked by arenas of conflicts involved in the attribution of the duty of the grandparents of food provision. This is to show how the politicization of justice in guaranteeing the rights of groups considered as dependent and discriminated leads to a process of judicialization of relations between relatives.