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Germany’s highest court strengthens adoption rights for gay couples in
civil partnerships
By Associated Press, Published: February 19
BERLIN — Germany’s highest court strengthened gay couples’ adoption
rights in a ruling Tuesday that the country’s justice minister greeted as
“a historic step.”
The Federal Constitutional Court ruled that one member of a civil
partnership should be able to adopt the partner’s stepchild or adopted
child. Until now, they could only adopt a partner’s biological child.
Germany has allowed same-sex couples to register civil partnerships that
legally fall short of formal marriage since 2001. Unlike many other European
countries, including Spain, the Netherlands and, most recently, France and
Britain, it hasn’t moved toward allowing full gay marriage.
The court ruled on a challenge to the existing rules from a woman who was
denied permission to adopt a Bulgarian girl whom her partner had adopted. It
ordered the government to draw up new legislation by June 2014.
It said the German constitutional provision that “marriage and the family
shall enjoy the special protection of the state,” cannot be used to justify
ruling out same-sex partners adopting the other partner’s adopted child.
“In marriage as in a civil partnership, adoption provides the child in the
same way with legal security and material advantages in terms of care,
support and inheritance law,” presiding judge, Ferdinand Kirchhof, said.
Though the ruling means that same-sex couples can now adopt the same child
on an individual basis, they still cannot adopt children together as a
couple. Germany’s main gay rights group called for that to be changed after
the ruling.
In a separate case, the court is considering whether gay partnerships should
be granted the tax breaks given to married couples; it’s unclear when a
ruling will come.
“Today’s decision marks a historic step finally to put rainbow families in
Germany on a comprehensive, secure legal footing,” Justice Minister Sabine
Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger said. “Full adoption must be the next step.”
The minister is a member of the Free Democrats, the socially liberal junior
partner in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition.
Many members of Merkel’s conservative Union bloc, however, are more
skeptical about gay marriage and adoption. Conservative lawmaker Andrea
Vosshoff said Tuesday’s ruling was “justifiable” but that it was still
right not to allow gay couples to adopt a child who is entering an entirely
new family environment.
Merkel’s spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said the government views the ruling
“with great respect” and will now consider how to comply with it.
In a separate decision Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights ruled
against neighboring Austria’s decision to deny a lesbian woman the right to
adopt her longtime partner’s son.
The court in Strasbourg, France, found there was no persuasive reason to
treat the couple differently from an unmarried heterosexual couple in the
boy’s adoption.
Under Austrian law, allowing the woman to adopt the boy would have severed
his mother’s parental rights, based on a 2006 Austrian ruling that the term
“parents” was intended to mean two people of different sex.
Tuesday’s ruling acknowledged that European law on adoption by same-sex
couples is in flux, but found that Austria had discriminated against the
couple. It ordered the government to pay more than 8,000 ($50,000) in
damages.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may
not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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