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Same-sex marriage is legally recognized and performed throughout Mexico since 2022. [1] On 10 August 2010 the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation ruled that same-sex marriages performed anywhere within Mexico must be recognized by the 31 states without exception, and fundamental spousal rights except for adoption (such as alimony payments, inheritance rights, and the coverage of spouses by ...
Same-sex marriage has been legal in the State of Mexico since 2 November 2022. On 11 October 2022, the Congress of the State of Mexico voted 50–16 with seven abstentions to pass a bill legalizing same-sex marriage. [1] [2] It was published on 1 November 2022, and took effect the next day. [3]
2010 (4 March): Same-sex marriage law becomes effective in Mexico City. Along with legal adoption to same-sex parents. 2010 (5 August): The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (the highest federal court in the country) voted 9–2 to uphold the constitutionality of Mexico City's same-sex marriage reform. Four days later it upheld the city's ...
Same-sex sexual acts are legal in Mexico, but LGBT people have been prosecuted through the use of legal codes that regulate obscene or lurid behavior (atentados a la moral y las buenas costumbres). Over the past twenty years, there have been reports of violence against gay men, including the murders of openly gay men in Mexico City and of ...
The Civil Code of Quintana Roo does not define gender requirements for marriage, specifying only "people interested in getting married". [5] A same-sex couple, Patricia Novelo and Areli Castro, applied for a marriage license in Cancún and Chetumal after discovering this legal quirk, but both cities rejected their applications, arguing that a heterosexual marriage was implied.
Mexico City was the first jurisdiction in Mexico to legalize same-sex marriage, and the first in Latin America to do so, followed by Argentina in July 2010. Civil unions , known as sociedades de convivencia in Spanish , which offer some of the rights, benefits and obligations of marriage , have been recognized for same-sex couples since March 2007.
On 26 January 2016, the Mexican Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the three articles were unconstitutional, determining that Jalisco's same-sex marriage ban violated Articles 1 and 4 of the Constitution of Mexico. Article 1 of the Constitution states that "any form of discrimination, based on ethnic or national origin, gender, age ...
[23] [24] Their amparo was granted, and the couple announced in December 2019 that their marriage ceremony would take place in March 2020. [25] Ten people from Tijuana filed an amparo for same-sex marriage rights in June 2015. [26] It was granted by a court on 18 March 2016. [27] On 22 December 2016, a judge granted an amparo to another same ...