Same Sex Couples - Comparative Insights on Marriage and Cohabitation

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sáez, Macarena (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, 42
• Subjects: Law.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Ethics.; Civil law.; Private international law.; Conflict of laws.; International law.; Comparative law.; Families.; Families > Social aspects.; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law.; Family.; Regional and Cultural Studies.; Civil Law.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction; Macarena Sáez
• 2. And the story comes to an end: The Constitutionality of Same-Sex Marriages in Spain; José María Lorenzo Villaverde
• 3. Same-sex unions in Mexico: between text and doctrine; Estefania Vela Barba
• 4. Same-sex Marriage in the United States: The New Protection to Marriage; Macarena Sáez
• 5. Marriage between two. Changing and unchanging concepts of family: The case of LGBTI rights litigation on family issues in Colombia; Natalia Ramírez-Bustamante
• 6. Same-Sex Relationships and Israeli Law; Ayelet Blecher-Prigat
• 7. Same-sex marriage in the Commonwealth Caribbean: Is it Possible?; Toni Holness
• 8. Legal status of same-sex couples within the framework of Turkish civil law; Başak Başoğlu.