ITALY: Court Recognizes Citizenship Of Foreign-Born Child Of Gay Parents

Via Reuters:

An Italian court has for the first time recognised the legal status of a child born to a gay couple in a ruling, made public on Wednesday, that challenges the country's official stance on marriage only being between a man and a woman. Italy, where the Roman Catholic church still has a great influence on politics, does not allow gay marriage or civil partnerships but in recent months some courts and town councils have begun to recognise the validity of same-sex marriages contracted abroad. The appeals court in Turin ruled that the birth of the child, conceived by artificial insemination and born in Barcelona to a Spanish and Italian lesbian couple, should be transcribed into the official records of the town where the Italian woman lives. The ruling gives Italian citizenship to the child, who was born in 2011, and means it can come to Italy to be with the mother, who is now divorced from her Spanish ex-wife. Same sex marriage is legal in Spain and a Barcelona court gave joint custody to both women.

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