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L'homosexualité et la constitution de la famille : situations française et européenne
2016
The 2013-404 law of 17 May 2013 which opened up the possibility for people of the same gender to get married shows a turning point for the family rights in France. This law, sometimes described as a real tsunami, is the outcome of taking into account the homosexuals' claim for starting a family. Before 2013 the French right did not allow a homosexual couple to be a homoparental family. It did not authorize people of the same gender to get married. Moreover Assisted Reproduction is only reserved to heterosexual couples and Gestation for Others is strictly forbidden in France. This seemingly constrained consensus on the non-legal recognition of the homosexual family is reinforced by the Europ…
The “Law in Context” for (Stepchild) Adoption in Same-Sex Couples: The Italian Models
2019
This essay focuses on a recent development in Italian family law with respect to stepchild adoption in cases involving same-sex couples. Resorting to arguments of both the continuity of the affective relationship and the best interests of the child, courts have been willing to permit adoptions in these cases under Article 44 of L. 184/1983 (“Adoption Act”), which provides for “adoption in particular cases” (“APC”). This article provides a special (not exceptional) tool, that, at the time it was drafted, was not contemplated for stepchild adoption by a parent’s same-sex partner, but could be adapted for such situations. This has remained the case even after the legislative choice not to gran…
La trascrizione del certificato di nascita del figlio di coniugi “same sex”. Filiazione omogenitoriale, ordine pubblico internazionale e interesse de…
2015
Le odierne fugaci riflessioni prendono le mosse da un decreto con cui, in data 29 Ottobre 2014, la Corte d’Appello di Torino, ribaltando la decisione di primo grado, ha imposto all’ufficiale dello stato civile di trascrivere l’atto di nascita di un bambino risultante ab origine figlio di due madri, le quali, una spagnola e una Italiana, sposatesi in Spagna nel 2009, avevano procreato in Spagna tramite un procedimento di fecondazione eterologa. Il decreto in parola è di grande rilevanza in quanto senza precedenti, posto che sinora ciò che, talvolta, si era arrivato a riconoscere era la c.d. stepchild adoption, cioè l’adozione del figlio del partner (nei casi considerati, in una relazione omo…
THE TRUMAN SHOW OF SAME-SEX FAMILY. RIGHT TO FILIATION V. BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILD
2019
This study offers a brief excursus on the adoption in Italy, focusing on the legislative choice (as ruled by the “Civil Partnership Act”)1 not to grant the stepchild adoption (SCA) to the partners of the registered partnerships, called unioni civili. When the Act was discussed by the Parliament, there was an hard debate on filiation in same-sex couple: the right to be a couple for same-sex partners has been less problematic than providing for a specific right to parenthood. On such issue was not reached a majority’s consent, so, in order to save the goal of unioni civili, the provisions on filiation and adoption for same sex couples had been set aside. In the absence of scientific studies a…