The article seeks to contribute to the understanding of dispute as a subjective production of families. Founded on qualitative epistemology and in cultural-historical theory of subjectivity, the study on the problem included ex-spouses aged between 30 and 50 and their children of 5 to 20 years. Constructive-interpretive analysis of the results allows one to present indicators that the actions of family members for maintaining, or not, the dispute are guided by their subjective settings or a set of emotions and symbolic processes that integrate their personality systems. One concludes that realizing a psychological evaluation about the dispute must be taken into account, among other aspects, the subjective realities of families and the need to produce new directions towards it to position themselves and resolve the issue.
Family; Subjectivity; Child custody; Human Development