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Taiwan grants same-sex couples right to adopt in huge step toward equality

Taiwan’s legislature has passed a historic bill granting same-sex couples the right to jointly adopt a child neither of them are related to. The legislation was approved on 16 May and clears one of the final hurdles in Taiwan achieving full marriage equality. Prior to this, only heterosexual couples and single people were allowed to adopt children they have no biological relation to – resulting in only one person in a same-sex couple being able to legally register as the child’s parent, even if they were both raising them. Fan…

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Taiwan court allows same-sex partner to adopt child in historic move

A Taiwanese court allowed a married gay man to legally adopt his husband’s non-biological child in a historic case. On 25 December 2021, a family court approved an appeal allowing a same-sex partner to adopt the child adopted by his husband prior to their marriage. Wang Chen-wei (王振圍) and Chen Chun-ju (陳俊儒), the child’s adopted parents, were told it is in the best interests of their child by the court in the ruling. According to Taipei Times, this marks the first time a same-sex couple has been permitted to adopt…

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A gay couple in Taiwan wed after massive legal win for marriage equality

A gay Taiwanese-Macanese couple were given the right to marry after winning their landmark case this past May. According to a report from Agence France Presse, Ting Tse-yen and Guzifer Leong were able to legally get married in Taiwan after suffering pushback from the government. Although same-sex marriage is legal in the country, a loophole was discovered that prevented a Taiwanese person from marrying a partner that’s from a country where gay marriage is illegal. Ting is from Taiwan where Leong is from Macau, which currently doesn’t recognize same-sex partnerships.…

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