Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Australia: Defragmenting the Ever-Growing Family Law System
- Australia: Recognition of Children’s Rights and the High Court of Australia
- Belgium: What is a Parent? Answers and Questions
- Chile: Comments on the Regulation of the ‘First Welcome’ in the Protocol of the Interinstitutional Technical Table of Chile
- China: Research on the Necessity and Feasibility of Recognising Same-Sex Couples’ Status Under Civil Law in China
- China: The Protection of Property Rights and Interests of Divorced Female Family Caregivers
- Czech Republic: On Couples in De Facto Unions in the Czech Republic
- England and Wales: Abortion in England and Wales: The Ethical Challenge
- France: A Chronicle of French Family Law: 2021
- Hong Kong: Hello, Can You Hear Me? Implementing Article 12 of the UNCRC in the Hong Kong Legal Setting
- Ireland: LGBT + Family Rights in Ireland: Stretching Traditional Conceptions of Parenthood
- Italy: Italy’s 2021 Family Law Reform: A Missed Opportunity to Harness Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Minors
- Norway: Legal Capacity in Family Law Matters: Implementing Article 12 of the CRPD in Norway
- Poland: Legal Effects of Incapacitation in Polish Family Law
- Seychelles: Ground(s) For Divorce in Seychelles
- Slovenia: The Impact of Covid-19 on Family Relations in Slovenia
- South Africa: Homosexual Muslims in South Africa Some Legal Implications, Including Constitutional, Marriage and Succession
- South Korea: Grandchild Adoption in South Korea
- Sweden: Harmonising Family Law Across Borders in Europe
- United States of America: The Surprising Continuing Lack of Consensus Under US Law for the Award of Spousal Support After Divorce
- Index
Ireland: LGBT + Family Rights in Ireland: Stretching Traditional Conceptions of Parenthood
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2023
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Australia: Defragmenting the Ever-Growing Family Law System
- Australia: Recognition of Children’s Rights and the High Court of Australia
- Belgium: What is a Parent? Answers and Questions
- Chile: Comments on the Regulation of the ‘First Welcome’ in the Protocol of the Interinstitutional Technical Table of Chile
- China: Research on the Necessity and Feasibility of Recognising Same-Sex Couples’ Status Under Civil Law in China
- China: The Protection of Property Rights and Interests of Divorced Female Family Caregivers
- Czech Republic: On Couples in De Facto Unions in the Czech Republic
- England and Wales: Abortion in England and Wales: The Ethical Challenge
- France: A Chronicle of French Family Law: 2021
- Hong Kong: Hello, Can You Hear Me? Implementing Article 12 of the UNCRC in the Hong Kong Legal Setting
- Ireland: LGBT + Family Rights in Ireland: Stretching Traditional Conceptions of Parenthood
- Italy: Italy’s 2021 Family Law Reform: A Missed Opportunity to Harness Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Minors
- Norway: Legal Capacity in Family Law Matters: Implementing Article 12 of the CRPD in Norway
- Poland: Legal Effects of Incapacitation in Polish Family Law
- Seychelles: Ground(s) For Divorce in Seychelles
- Slovenia: The Impact of Covid-19 on Family Relations in Slovenia
- South Africa: Homosexual Muslims in South Africa Some Legal Implications, Including Constitutional, Marriage and Succession
- South Korea: Grandchild Adoption in South Korea
- Sweden: Harmonising Family Law Across Borders in Europe
- United States of America: The Surprising Continuing Lack of Consensus Under US Law for the Award of Spousal Support After Divorce
- Index
Summary
Résumé
Cet article présente et analyse de manière critique le traitement des familles LGBT + dans le droit irlandais. Si les récents changements apportés au droit irlandais par l’entrée en vigueur de la deuxième partie de la loi de 2015 sur les enfants et les relations familiales permettent désormais d’accorder le statut de parent aux personnes qui ont utilisé des formes particulières d’assistance médicale à la procréation, ces nouvelles voies d’accès à la parentalité sont très restreintes. Les familles LGBT + continuent de se heurter à des obstacles juridiques pour la reconnaissance de leur lien entre parents et enfants. Le traitement inégal de la relation parent-enfant au sein des familles LGBT + dans le droit irlandais résulte à la fois d’une réforme inadéquate et d’une incohérence fondamentale quant à l’utilité réelle du statut de parent légal.
INTRODUCTION
Irish law has accepted LGBT + families in principle, but legislation falls far short of an inclusive practical framework. Following the commencement of Part 2 of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 on 4 May 2020, Irish law now recognises that children conceived through assisted reproductive technology (ART) may have two mothers. Part 4 of the Act (which also commenced on 4 May 2020) extends the categories of people who may apply for legal guardianship. This is helpful in facilitating joint decision-making by parents in LGBT + families who are not recognised by law as parents. However, legal recognition of the parent–child dependencies within LGBT + families remains patchy and limited. Such families continue to face significant practical problems. While there have been numerous calls for the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 to be extended to cover a wider range of ART scenarios, and for Ireland to legislate to regulate the legal consequences of surrogacy, this chapter argues that a more fundamental conceptual shift in the legal understanding of parentage is required to achieve equality for all families.
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- International Survey of Family Law 2022 , pp. 205 - 230Publisher: IntersentiaPrint publication year: 2022