The LawsAndFamilies Database - A new online resource on aspects of legal family formats available to same-sex and/or different-sex couples in European countries

Author(s):
Waaldijk, C. (0000-0002-4545-6832)
Published
2017
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

Abstract

January 2017 sees the publication of The LawsAndFamilies Database (ed. by Kees Waaldijk et al.). This database is one of the milestones of the larger EU-funded FamiliesAndSocieties research project. This new online open-access resource will make it easier to find and compare legal information about marriage, registered partnership and cohabitation in European countries. The database is accessible via www.LawsAndFamilies.eu.

The information in the database has been provided by selected legal experts in 21 countries in the European Economic Area (typically two experts per country). In a questionnaire the experts were asked, for some 60 typical legal consequences and formalities of marriage, to what degree and since when these consequences and formalities are now available to same-sex and/or different-sex couples via one or more of three possible legal family formats (marriage, registered partnership, cohabitation).

Family lawMarriageRegistered partnershipCohabitationSame-sex couplesDifferent-sex couplesComparative lawEuropean law
Date issued
2017-03-01
Language
English
Is part of
GenIUS – Rivista di studi giuridici sull’orientamento sessuale e l’identità di genere (2017), Vol. 3, no. 2, p. 332-333
hdl
1887/71609
URL
http://www.articolo29.it/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/genius-2016-02.pdf

Funding

Sponsorship
Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)
Grant number
320116