Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts Constitutional Court (Belgio)

Date: 07/13/2017

Subject: The deciasion of the Cour constitutionelle, references the dispositions of the ECHR to sanction the constitutional illegitimacy of certain articles of the civil code which did not allow adoption for the domestic partner of the legal parent of the minor in case of a relationship between the two that constitutes an absolute and non-dispensable impediment to marriage

Parties: Tribunal de première instance du Limbourg, division Tongres

Original language: Belgian

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 7 Privacy - Equality - Art. 24 Children’s rights

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