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Legal recognition of
Same-sex unions |
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Civil unions and
registered partnerships |
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Argentina (C, R, VCP)
Australia (TAS, SA, ACT, VIC eff. 2008-12-1)
Brazil (RS)
Canada (QC)
Mexico (Coah., DF)
United States (CA, CT, DC, HI, ME, NH, NJ, OR, VT, WA)
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| Unregistered co-habitation |
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| Recognition debated |
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Same-sex marriage debated,
recognition granted |
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United States (CT, DC, HI, ME, NH, NJ, OR, VT, WA) |
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The act of 23 November 1998 granted statutory cohabitation (Dutch: wettelijke samenwoning; French: cohabitation légale) in Belgium. The act gives limited rights to registered same-sex and opposite-sex couples by inserting a Title V-bis on statutory cohabitation in the Belgian Civil Code and by amending certain provisions of the Belgian Civil Code and the Belgian Judicial Code. However, persons who are not a couple can also make a declaration of statutory cohabitiation, including relatives.
The law was legally published on January 12, 1999. It went in force on January 1, 2000, according to a royal order signed on December 14, & published on December 23, 1999. Marriage was later opened for same-sex couples in 2003 with the same rights and responsibilities as opposite-sex married partners. Neither partner needs to be a Belgian citizen.
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Belgian law since 2006 provides for presumed and/or actual paternity and maternity for any person (regardless of gender) of a married person who gives birth during their marriage. There are also provisions for joint parental responsibility and for adoption of children, by any couple (a single person and/or same-sex or opposite sex couples). This is an odd law because this only came into affect since 2006, three years after same-sex marriage became legal.
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