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From Civil Partnership to Same-Sex Marriage

Author : Nicola Barker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317632044
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book From Civil Partnership to Same-Sex Marriage written by Nicola Barker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil Partnership Act 2004 and the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 are important legal, social and historical landmarks, rich in symbolic, material and cultural meanings. While fiercely opposed by many, within mainstream narratives they are often represented as a victory in a legal reform process that commenced with the decriminalisation of homosexuality. Yet, at the same time, for others they represent a problematic and ambivalent political engagement with the institution of marriage. Consequently, understood or labelled as ‘revolutionary’, ‘progressive’ and ‘conservative’, these legal reforms provide a space for thinking about issues that arguably affect everyone, regardless of sexual orientation or relationship status. This edited collection brings together scholars and commentators from a range of backgrounds, generations and disciplines to reflect on the first ten years of civil partnerships and the introduction of same-sex marriage. Rather than rehearsing the arguments ‘for’ and ‘against’ relationship recognition, the essays ask original questions, draw on a variety of methods and collectively provide a detailed and reflective ‘snap shot’ of a critical moment, a ‘history of the present’ as well as providing a foundation for innovative ways of thinking about and engaging with the possibilities and experiences arising from the new reality of relationship recognition for gays and lesbians.

Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage

Author : Nancy D. Polikoff
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807044342
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage written by Nancy D. Polikoff and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate over marriage equality for same-sex couples rages across the country. Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage boldly moves the discussion forward by focusing on the larger, more fundamental issue of marriage and the law. The root problem, asserts law professor and LGBT rights activist Nancy Polikoff, is that marriage is a bright dividing line between those relationships that legally matter and those that don't. A woman married to a man for nine months is entitled to Social Security survivor's benefits when he dies; a woman living for nineteen years with a man or woman to whom she is not married receives nothing. Polikoff reframes the debate by arguing that all family relationships and households need the economic stability and emotional peace of mind that now extend only to married couples. Unmarried couples of any sexual orientation, single-parent households, extended family units, and myriad other familial configurations need recognition and protection to meet the concerns they all share: building and sustaining economic and emotional interdependence, and nurturing the next generation. Couples should have the choice to marry based on the spiritual, cultural, or religious meaning of marriage in their lives, asserts Polikoff. While marriage equality for same-sex couples is a civil rights victory, she contends that no one should have to marry in order to reap specific and unique legal results. A persuasive argument that married couples should not receive special rights denied to other families, Polikoff shows how the law can value all families, and why it must.

Same Sex Couples - Comparative Insights on Marriage and Cohabitation

Author : Macarena Sáez
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401797749
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Same Sex Couples - Comparative Insights on Marriage and Cohabitation written by Macarena Sáez and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows six different realities of same-sex families. They range from full recognition of same-sex marriage to full invisibility of gay and lesbian individuals and their families. The broad spectrum of experiences presented in this book share some commonalities: in all of them legal scholars and civil society are moving legal boundaries or thinking of spaces within rigid legal systems for same-sex families to function. In all of them there have been legal claims to recognize the existence of same-sex families. The difference between them lies in the response of courts. Regardless of the type of legal system, when courts have viewed claims of same-sex couples and their families as problems of individual rights, they have responded with a constitutional narrative protecting same-sex couples and their families. When courts respond to these claims with rigid concepts of what a family is and what marriage is as if legal concepts where unmodifiable, same-sex couples have remained outside the protection of the law. Until forty years ago marriage was the only union considered legitimate to form a family. Today more than 30 countries have granted rights to same sex couples, including several that have opened up marriage to couples of the same sex. Every day there is a new bill being discussed or a new claim being brought to courts seeking formal recognition of same sex couples. Not all countries are open to changing their legal structures to accommodate same-sex couples, but even those with no visible changes are witnessing new voices in their communities challenging the status quo and envisioning more flexible legal systems.

Same Sex Marriages

Author : B. Heaphy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137311061
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Same Sex Marriages written by B. Heaphy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive couple and individual interviews with young same sex couples who have legally formalized their relationships, this book argues that same sex marriages as they are lived need to be understood in terms of interlinked developments in lesbian and gay life, heterosexual relationships and in personal life.

Same Sex Relationships

Author : Stephen Michael Cretney
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Same Sex Relationships written by Stephen Michael Cretney and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the 2005 Oxford Clarendon Lectures in Law, this book deals with the remarkable change in society's attitude to homosexuality over the last half century. Until 1967 homosexual acts were punished by the criminal law and as recently as 1988 Parliament forbade teachers from suggesting that homosexuality was an acceptable family relationship. In 2005 Parliament passed the Civil Partnership Act, which creates a framework in which same-sex couples can have their relationship legally recognised in much the same way as marriage. This book looks at the essentials of the civil partnerships contruct, and asks whether it is really creating an institution of 'gay marriage'? If not, the next question to ask is whether civil partnership can satisfy the demands for equality increasingly being made by the gay community? In the United States, the courts have taken an active and progressive stance, holding that to deny marriage to same sex couples and leave them with mere partnership is to create a 'separate but equal' situation historically associated with the racial discrimination now universally recognised as unconstitutional and morally unjustifiable. However, the political climate has risen to a fever pitch with the current administration's push for constitutional amendment to ban outright gay marriage. In the UK the courts have been less activist, but the potential creation of a Supreme Court raises important questions about the boundaries between the roles of judiciary, the legislature, and government; and whether the judiciary should play a more constitutionally active role than has thus far been traditional?

Same Sex Marriage and Civil Partnerships

Author : Mark Harper
Publisher : Family Law Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781846618598
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book Same Sex Marriage and Civil Partnerships written by Mark Harper and published by Family Law Publications. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This New Law Guide examines the legal changes introduced by the Civil Partnership Act 2004 and the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, and the rights and responsibilities that are afforded to those who register under the scheme, as well as examining the law as it relates to cohabitants, so that the legislation can be seen in context. The CPA 2004 makes provision for Scotland and Northern Ireland but this work confines its analysis to the implications for the law of England and Wales of the CPA 2004 and the MSSCA 2013. It includes an analysis of some of the parliamentary debates, many of which will be relevant in future arguments about the meaning of the statute, in accordance with the rule in Pepper (Inspector of Taxes) v Hart. In addition, there is consideration of some wider material for the purpose of evaluating compatibility of the legislation with Convention rights, including the value judgments inherent in the test of proportionality as suggested in Wilson v First County Trust Ltd. Appendices contain the full text of the MSSCA 2013 and relevant extracts from the CPA 2004. SAME SEX MARRIAGE & CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS - THE NEW LAW provides an authoritative commentary, highlighting areas of potential difficulty and offering practical guidance, and will be essential reading for all family lawyers, housing lawyers and also chancery practitioners dealing with inheritance claims.

Same-sex Marriage

Author : Patricia M. Stockland
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 1604538198
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Same-sex Marriage written by Patricia M. Stockland and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the controversial viewpoints regarding same-sex marriages.

Same-sex Marriage

Author : Louise Spilsbury
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1448860660
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Same-sex Marriage written by Louise Spilsbury and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the legal debate of same-sex marriage, including the history of the gay rights movement, the arguments both in support and opposition of same-sex marriage, and how same-sex marriage is treated around the world.

Making It Legal

Author : Frederick Hertz
Publisher : Nolo
ISBN 13 : 1413325106
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Making It Legal written by Frederick Hertz and published by Nolo. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marriage equality is here to stay: Understand the benefits and complications Full legal marriage is now available in all U.S. states. But there are still many questions that same-sex couples should discuss before walking down the aisle. Learn how marriage will affect: your family if you have children your taxes, and your responsibility for your partner’s debts. Making It Legal also covers state laws on same-sex domestic partnerships and civil unions, and explains whether your registration will be recognized if you move to another state.

Marriage and Civil Partnership: ‘separate but equal’ or unacceptable discrimination?

Author : Luke Sherlock
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1471626296
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book Marriage and Civil Partnership: ‘separate but equal’ or unacceptable discrimination? written by Luke Sherlock and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beginning of the twenty-first century has seen the dramatic opening of the institution of marriage to same-sex couples, within certain few countries in Europe and North America. This wave of liberal reform of marriage began with the Netherlands in 2001 and spread quickly to other European countries such as Belgium (2003), Spain (2005), Norway (2009), Portugal (2009), and Iceland (2009). However not all European countries have chosen to legislate in favour of same-sex marriage, as many jurisdictions have opted for an alternative model for relationship recognition such as civil union or partnerships. However in the case of the United Kingdom, does the existence of two institutions that are solely exclusive upon sexuality create unfair discrimination?This book examines this question and puts forward the moral and legal debate that exists on this topical area. This is done while examining the theoretical argument that may be challenged under the European convention on Human Rights.

Same-sex Marriage in the United States

Author : Sean Robert Cahill
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739108826
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Same-sex Marriage in the United States written by Sean Robert Cahill and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rhetoric and emotion surrounding the same-sex marriage debate tends to obscure the facts and figures. Tracing the development of same-sex marriage in the United States and its deployment as a political tool, Sean Cahill lays out the current situation in plain language and explains what's at stake.

Same-sex Marriage in the United States

Author : Jason Pierceson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442212055
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Same-sex Marriage in the United States written by Jason Pierceson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Same-sex marriage has become one of the defining social issues in contemporary U.S. politics. State court decisions finding in favor of same-sex relationship equality claims have been central to the issue's ascent from nowhere to near the top of the national political agenda. Same Sex Marriage in the United States tells the story of the legal and cultural shift, its backlash, and how it has evolved over the past 15 years. This book aids in a classroom examination of the legal, political, and social developments surrounding the issue of same-sex marriage in the United States. While books about same-sex marriage have proliferated in recent years, few, if any, have provided a clear and comprehensive account of the litigation for same-sex marriage, and its successes and failures, as this book does. Updated through 2013, this edition details the watershed rulings in favor of same-sex marriage: the Supreme Court's June 26th repeal of DOMA, and of Proposition 8 in California, as well as the many states (New Jersey, Illinois, New Mexico, Hawaii, and Nevada among others) where activists and public leaders have made recent strides to ensure that gay couples have an equal right to marry.

Defending Same-Sex Marriage

Author : Martin Dupuis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313054215
Total Pages : 887 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Defending Same-Sex Marriage written by Martin Dupuis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-12-30 with total page 887 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today we find ourselves at a crossroads of two powerful, unrelenting currents that are completely at odds with one another. The movement for legal recognition of same-sex unions has gone beyond the separate but equal status of civil unions to demand equality in marriage for all couples. Progress is being made on many fronts: mayoral action, clergy officiating at same-sex marriage and union ceremonies, state legislative responses, and street protests, to name a few. Meanwhile, opposition to same-sex marriage has also been gathering strength. The struggle is sure to continue unabated for some time to come, pitting those who believe in the traditional definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman—and who seek to codify this belief in the U.S. Constitution—against those who find the basis for marriage between two loving, committed individuals not only in the history of our civil rights legislation and court decisions, but also in scripture and sacred religious traditions. Those who believe in extending to same-sex couples the 1,049 rights conferred by marriage as well as the supportive embrace of religious communities seek to strengthen the institution of marriage by making it inclusive and by passing laws and broadening doctrines to uphold marriage rights for all couples. This three-volume set clarifies the legal, political, religious, cultural, and social ramifications of same-sex marriage for gay and lesbian couples and their families and friends, and for the general public interested in the future of civil rights in the United States.

Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Partnerships

Author : Robert Wintemute
Publisher : Hart Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1841131385
Total Pages : 807 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Partnerships written by Robert Wintemute and published by Hart Publishing. This book was released on 2001-10-13 with total page 807 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book an international team of scholars examines both theoretical issues and the wide variety of legal developments in various countires.

The Limits to Union

Author : Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472022741
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Limits to Union written by Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-12-22 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and updated to include the most current information on same-sex marriage, The Limits to Union documents a legal struggle at its moment of greatest historical importance. "The Limits to Union is a superb book about the complexities of recent political struggles over same-sex marriage. Goldberg-Hiller offers a sophisticated account of egalitarian rights advocacy and the reaction it has generated from established majorities animated by a 'new common sense' of exclusionary sovereign authority. The author's analysis is multidimensional and nuanced, but the core argument is bold, important, and well-supported. I recommend it very highly to everyone interested in understanding the character, possibilities, and constraints of civil rights amid our contemporary culture wars." -Michael McCann, author of Rights at Work: Pay Equity Reform and the Politics of Legal Mobilization "In this excellent book, Goldberg-Hiller uses Hawaii's experience to examine the interaction between courts and the political system. . . . Relying on briefs, legislative statements, and interviews with activists from both sides of the question, he views this familiar debate . . . through the unfamiliar prism of gay marriage, which allows him to gauge the viability and the pliability of the American civil rights ideal, and how gay and lesbian issues fit (or don't fit) within that ideal." -Willian Heinzen, New York Law Journal "Goldberg-Hiller presents the history of the same-sex marriage question since it first sparked debate in Hawaii. He follows the shifting debate through court cases, state propositions, and state and federal legislatures, considering questions about the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act and the concept of equal protection under the law for gays and lesbians. This detailed treatment of the legal issues surrounding same-sex marriages is highly recommended." -R. L. Abbott, University of Evansville "[A] valuable contribution to the field, situating the gay marriage debate in broader contexts of theory, law and practice. [S]ame-sex marriage is an important issue...that finds itself caught in the friction points of much larger debates over the nature of rights, the limits of sovereignty and the proper role of courts and law in a democratic society. The Limits to Union should therefore be of interest even to those who do not think of themselves as interested in gay and lesbian rights issues." -Evan Gerstmann, Loyola Marymount University, Law and Politics Book Review

Equality for Same-Sex Couples

Author : Yuval Merin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226520331
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Equality for Same-Sex Couples written by Yuval Merin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past three decades, nations all over the world have been debating whether to allow same-sex couples to marry, or at least grant these couples various rights associated with marriage. In Equality for Same-Sex Couples, Yuval Merin presents the first comparative study of the legal regulation of same-sex partnerships worldwide, as well as a unique survey of the status of same-sex couples in Europe. Merin begins by providing a historical overview of the transformation of marriage from antiquity to the present. He then identifies and critically compares four principal models for the legal regulation and recognition of same-sex partnerships: civil marriage, registered partnership, domestic partnership, and cohabitation. Merin concludes that all of the models except civil marriage discriminate against gays and lesbians just as the "separate but equal" doctrine discriminated against African Americans; thus, so-called alternatives to marriage, even if they provide the same rights and benefits as marriage, are inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional.

Same-Sex Marriage

Author : Tamara Thompson
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 0737776811
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (377 download)

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Download or read book Same-Sex Marriage written by Tamara Thompson and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2015-02-06 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled by a 5 to 4 vote that the Constitution guarantees a right to same-sex marriage. This anthology provides your readers with a complete overview of the debate about same-sex marriage. It contains a diverse collection of writings representing leading conservative, liberal, and centrist views of the issues surrounding the topic. Each chapter presents an important question about the subject, and the opinions that follow are grouped into "yes" and "no" categories. By evaluating contrasting opinions, readers can attain an objective knowledge.