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Italy and Japan are the only G7 nations where same-sex marriages are not recognized. [9] In Italy both male and female same-sex sexual activity has been legal since 1890, when a new penal code was promulgated. A civil union law was passed in May 2016, providing same-sex couples with all of the rights of marriage except for joint adoption rights ...
The six plaintiff couples in this case, three of whom had married in Canada, 2 in the Netherlands and 1 in California, sought to have their marriages registered in Italy but officials had refused, citing a 2001 order by the Ministry of Internal Affairs that same-sex marriage was "contrary to the norms of public order". The court also ordered ...
In the case of sexual relations within marriage – only in the cases of marriages recognized as valid by the Catholic Church and by the laws of Vatican City – the legal age is set at 14 years old. [4] Foreign diplomats, in order to be accredited, must not be part of a same-sex family, [5] and must not be divorced. [6]
A new citizens' initiative was started on 29 March 2015 aiming to rescind the new marriage law. The new initiative collected almost 110,000 signatures by 29 September 2015 but it was rejected by the Legal Affairs Committee and later voted down by the full Parliament on 17 February 2017, by 120–48. The new marriage law took effect on 1 March 2017.
Although the prices of old homes in the area have increased over the past few years, there are currently ruins on sale for as little as 10,000 euros (about $10,928) to 15,000 euros (around $16,392 ...
The application of marriage law equally to same-sex and opposite-sex couples has varied by jurisdiction, and has come about through legislative change to marriage law, court rulings based on constitutional guarantees of equality, recognition that marriage of same-sex couples is allowed by existing marriage law, and by direct popular vote, such ...
International matrimonial law is an area of private international law (or conflict of laws in the United States). The area specifically deals with relations between spouses and former spouses on issues of marriage, divorce and child custody. In the last 50 years, the States Members of the Hague Conference on Private International Law have ...
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