Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Czech Court:Gay Registered Partners Can Adopt; Law Previously Disallowed Them from Adopting

The Czech Constitutional Court has overturned a law which banned individual gays and lesbians living in a registered partnership from adopting children, the Prague Daily Monitor website reports today (June 29, 2016).

In its ruling yesterday, the Czech Republic's highest court said that such a ban is discriminatory because individual gays and lesbians who don't live in the official partnership were allowed to adopt children.

However, the ruling still does not allow lesbian and gay pairs to adopt children as a couple.

In 2006, the Czech parliament approved a law allowing same-sex partners to live in an officially registered partnership. The law, nonetheless, does not allow same-sex partners to marry.

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