: Families can also be in shape of unmarried partnerships and queer relationships, Supreme Court says #IndiaNEWS Families can be in the shape of domestic, unmarried partnerships and queer relationships

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Families can also be in shape of unmarried partnerships and queer relationships, Supreme Court says #IndiaNEWS
Families can be in the shape of domestic, unmarried partnerships and queer relationships and deserve equal protection under the law like their traditional counterparts, the Supreme Court said, reported Live Law.A bench comprising of Justices DY Chandrachud and AS Bopanna said that a predominant understanding of the concept of a family, both in the law and in society, is that it consists of a single, unchanging unit of a mother and father and their children.“This assumption ignores both, the many circumstances which may lead to a change in one’s familial structure, and the fact that many families do not conform to this expectation to begin with,� the bench said. “A household may be a single parent household for any number of reasons, including the death of a spouse, separation, or divorce.� The bench made the observation on August 16, while granting relief to a Central government employee who was denied maternity leave for her biological child only because her husband has two children from a previous marriage and she had availed the leave to take care of one of them.“The fact that the appellant’s spouse had two biological children from his first marriage would not impinge upon the entitlement of the appellant to avail maternity leave for...Read more

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