Non-conjugal families, interdependent, committed relationships between two or more persons who do not have a sexual relationship, are only one of the examples deserving of greater attention and analysis, in order to redesign the contours and limits of family law. In order to understand their legal context in Portugal, this blog post intends to analyze the so-called Sharing Economy Law (Lei da Economia Comum, Law no. 6/2006).
Article 9 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union states that everyone has the right to marry and to found a family. The same idea is also shared by the Treaty of the European Union (article 2º). So, if the European Union (EU) promotes these fundamental values, as well as the prohibition of discrimination based on sexual orientation, why is it still so hard for same-sex couples to adopt in the European Union?
This blog post will focus on the analysis of the Hungarian Act LXXIX and will discuss its incompatibility with EU law. Moreover, it will critically explore the legal procedures that the EU institutions have triggered to remedy Hungary’s breach of EU law.
This blog post explores the issue of trans parenthood by laying focus on the requirement of sterilisation. Sterilisation is a pre-condition in certain European Union (hereinafter ‘EU’) states to access legal gender recognition (hereinafter ‘LGR’). This condition yields a significant impact on rainbow families[1] with trans parents
