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Italian couple win same-sex adoption case
Source: Agence France-Presse
Italian couple win same-sex adoption case
Agence France-Presse in Rome
Friday 29 April 2016 23.41 BST
Two gay Italian women have won the right to adopt each other’s children in a legal first for the country. All previous verdicts in Italy in favour of lesbian women being legally recognised as the parents of their partner’s children are at the appeal stages.
In its judgment on Friday, Rome’s juvenile court said Marilena Grassadonia, president of the Rainbow Families association, could adopt her wife’s twin boys. In turn, her partner adopted Grassadonia’s son. All three were conceived by artificial insemination.
In March, a man won his request to adopt his partner’s child, but rights watchers believed the ruling may have slipped through the net due to an administrative error, with the office of the prosecutor in charge of the case failing to file an appeal in time.
Grassadonia was a vocal campaigner in Italy during the heated debate earlier this year over a contested civil unions bill.
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Agence France-Presse in Rome
Friday 29 April 2016 23.41 BST
Two gay Italian women have won the right to adopt each other’s children in a legal first for the country. All previous verdicts in Italy in favour of lesbian women being legally recognised as the parents of their partner’s children are at the appeal stages.
In its judgment on Friday, Rome’s juvenile court said Marilena Grassadonia, president of the Rainbow Families association, could adopt her wife’s twin boys. In turn, her partner adopted Grassadonia’s son. All three were conceived by artificial insemination.
In March, a man won his request to adopt his partner’s child, but rights watchers believed the ruling may have slipped through the net due to an administrative error, with the office of the prosecutor in charge of the case failing to file an appeal in time.
Grassadonia was a vocal campaigner in Italy during the heated debate earlier this year over a contested civil unions bill.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/29/italian-couple-win-same-sex-adoption-case
