Neither the Civil Code of Québec or the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms include measures to ensure the right to the safeguard of family life. Yet the family remains the bedrock of society. Simple omission or willful forgetting of the Legislator? In the first part, the author lays the groundwork for a theory of the family in the Civil Code. If one insists on the existence of a right to the safeguard of family life, we must ask: what is family? On the basis of a given meaning of “family”, with an emphasis marked for the content of the links uniting the members of the family, more than its single composition, the author notes, in a second part, the mechanisms condemning unlawful interference with family life. From this analysis of Québec law on violations of family life, the author concludes that the courts sanction direct attacks (alienation of affection) and indirect attacks (loss of consortium and servitium, and solatium doloris) to family life. They also condemn unlawful interference with the right to the safeguard of its dignity, honour and reputation with regards to the name, but also if there is an offense to a living family member or his remains. Therefore, a right to the safeguard of family life exists in Québec.