MJ Martin (10 Dec 2004)
"Mazuz backs rights of same-sex couples"


Mazuz backs rights of same-sex couples (Gay marriage in Israel?)
Jerusalem Post ^ | 12/9/2004 | DAN IZENBERG
 

Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz announced on Wednesday that unlike his predecessor, Elyakim Rubinstein, he favors upholding financial arrangements made between same-sex couples and that he had already changed the state's approach to this issue in cases that have come to court.

Mazuz issued the statement in response to a ruling in Ramat Gan Family Court that sharply criticized the state's objection to a financial agreement between male partners who wanted to share paternal obligations regarding a child born to one of them.
 

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