Lithuania's constitutional court rules exclusion of same-sex partnerships from civil code unconstitutional

The institution of partnership, as now defined in Lithuania's Civil Code, is unconstitutional because it only provides for a union between a man and a woman, excluding same-sex relationships, the country’s Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday. "Article 3.229 of the Civil Code, insofar as it allows only a partnership between a man and a woman, runs counter to the Constitution," said Gintaras Goda, president of the Constitutional Court. The court also said that requiring a separate law to legalise civil partnerships ran counter to the constitution.
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