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This is Topic: Family Law
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The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs has published the Adoption Bill 2009. The Bill will give force of law to the Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Intercountry Adoption, 1993. Current adoption legislation will be incorporated into a single Act, by bringing forward existing provisions into the Adoption Bill 2009 and restating or updating those provisions as appropriate. The Bill also establishes the Adoption Authority of Ireland to replace the Adoption Board.
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 09:47
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The Heads of a Civil Partnership Bill have approved by the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform and are now being drafted by the Office of the Attorney General.
The Heads of the Bill draw on the recommendations contained in the Colley Options Paper and the recommendations of the Law Reform Commission. The Scheme establishes a statutory mechanism for registration of same-sex partnerships and sets out the duties and responsibilities of registered partners as well as setting out the consequences of dissolution of such partnerships.
The legislation provides legal status to cohabitation agreements between unmarried opposite-sex couples cohabiting couples and between unregistered cohabiting same sex couples. For unregistered or unmarried cohabitants who have not made a cohabitant agreement, it will provide protection to a dependent vulnerable party at the end of a relationship by providing a redress scheme.
The Bill will give legal effect to range of property, financial and other matters consequent on civil partnership such as maintenance, shared home, succession, tax, social welfare schemes and pensions.
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 11:21
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The Law Reform Commission published its report on Aspects of Intercountry Adoption Law on 19 February 2008. The report was made in response to a request by the Attorney General in 2005 to consider the status and citizenship rights of children resident outside the State who has been the subject of a foreign adoption order made in favour of Irish citizens living abroad.
The Commission has recommended that once an adoption is recognized in Ireland and at least one of the adopter’s is an Irish citizen, the adopted child is entitled to become an Irish citizen even where the family lives outside the State, as was the case with Tristan Dowse.
The Commission also recommends in the Report that the 1993 Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-Operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption be ratified and incorporated into Irish law. Plans are afoot for this with the expected publication of the Adoption Bill 2008.
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 10:22
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The Law Reform Commission’s report makes recommendations for reform of the law concerning co-habitants, defined as opposite or same-sex couples who live together in an intimate relationship and who are not related to each other. Working on the assumption that some form of civil partnership for same-sex couples is likely to be introduced in the near future, the recommendations deal with co-habitants who do not register their relationship and conclude that this group of people should be considered separately in any reform of the law.
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A working group established by the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform and published its report - Options Paper on Domestic Partnership. The purpose of the Group was to examine the question of according legal status to those who live together but who are not married.
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