Brazil: Supreme Court Grants Original Nationality to Children Adopted Abroad
On March 12, 2026, the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court (STF) ruled that foreign-born individuals adopted abroad by Brazilian citizens are entitled to Brazilian nationality by birth, provided the...
View ArticleItaly: Constitutional Court Declares Parental Leave Restriction on Woman in...
On May 6, 2025, the Italian Constitutional Court issued a decision declaring a provision on leave protections for working mothers and fathers to be unconstitutional because it did not recognize the...
View ArticleFrance: Cassation Court Addresses Recognition of Foreign Surrogacy Judgments
On October 2, 2024, the French Court of Cassation issued two rulings identifying criteria for the recognition of foreign gestational surrogacy judgments. The decisions provide greater legal certainty...
View ArticleSwitzerland: Paid Parental Leave of Two Weeks for Adoptions Available...
Starting January 1, 2023, Swiss parents who adopt a child younger than four years old will be able to take two weeks of paid parental leave. The Swiss Federal Council, the country’s government, decided...
View ArticleEuropean Union: New Rules on Cross-Border Parental-Responsibility Disputes...
On August 1, 2022, the Brussels IIb Regulation took effect, which provides updated rules for cross-border disputes in the European Union (EU) regarding parental responsibility and child abduction. It...
View ArticleAustria: Constitutional Court Holds Unmarried Couples May Adopt Together
In a decision published on January 10, 2022, the Austrian Constitutional Court (Verfassungsgerichtshof, VfGH) held that the Austrian Civil Code does not exclude unmarried couples from joint or second...
View ArticleNew Zealand: Bill Providing for Bereavement Leave Following Miscarriage Passed
(Mar. 26, 2021) On March 24, 2021, the New Zealand Parliament unanimously passed the Holidays (Bereavement Leave for Miscarriage) Amendment Bill (No 2). The Bill “makes it clear that the unplanned end...
View ArticleGermany: Amendments to Adoption Law Enacted
(Mar. 16, 2021) On February 18, 2021, the Act to Improve Support to Families That Are Adopting (Adoption Support Act) was published in the German Federal Law Gazette. The Adoption Support Act aims to...
View ArticleAustralia: Adopted Persons in NSW Able to Obtain Birth Certificates with...
(Dec. 24, 2020) On November 16, 2020, the Adoption Legislation Amendment (Integrated Birth Certificates) Act 2020 (NSW) came into force in the state of New South Wales (NSW), Australia, following its...
View ArticleAustralia: Bill Recognizing Indigenous Adoption Practices Passed in Queensland
(Sept. 15, 2020) On September 8, 2020, the Queensland Parliament passed the Meriba Omasker Kaziw Kazipa (Torres Strait Islander Traditional Child Rearing Practice) Act 2020, which legally recognizes...
View ArticleGermany: New Act Allows Stepchild Adoption in Nonmarital Families
(Apr. 29, 2020) On March 31, 2020, an act that allows stepchild adoption in nonmarital families entered into force in Germany. The act implements a decision of the German Federal Constitutional Court...
View ArticleGermany: Regional Court Holds Foreign Adoption Decision Violated...
(Nov. 27, 2019) In a decision published on November 11, 2019, the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt did not recognize an adoption decision of the High Court of Sierra Leone because, in the Court’s...
View ArticleIsrael: Family Court Rejects Request to Register Same-Sex Spouse of...
(Nov. 14, 2019) On October 22, 2019, the Lod Central-District Court rejected a request to register a woman as the third parent of her same-sex spouse’s biological children or alternatively appoint her...
View ArticleIsrael: Family Court Recognizes Right to Adopt for a Man and a Woman "Known...
(Oct. 31, 2019) On September 17, 2019, the deputy president of the Be’er Sheva Family Court approved the adoption of a minor by a heterosexual unmarried couple the Court determined to be “known to the...
View ArticleRussia: President Signs Law Allowing Adoption of Children by People with...
(June 26, 2019) On May 29, 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a bill that allows courts to use discretion in approving adoption orders concerning children who already live with...
View ArticleGermany: De Facto Complete Exclusion of Stepchild Adoption for Unmarried...
(May 15, 2019) In a decision published on May 2, 2019, the German Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht, BVerfG) held that the fact that an unmarried stepparent cannot adopt his or her...
View ArticleGermany: Federal Court of Justice Rules on Legal Motherhood of Surrogate
(Apr. 29, 2019) In a decision published on April 23, 2019, the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH), Germany’s supreme court for civil and criminal cases, held that German law must...
View ArticlePhilippines: Law on Rectification of Simulated Birth Records Enacted
(Apr. 26, 2019) On March 14, 2019, the Philippine government announced in the Official Gazette the enactment of the Simulated Birth Rectification Act (Republic Act No. 11222), which grants amnesty to...
View ArticleAustria: Constitutional Court Holds That Civil Code Provision May Not Be...
(Nov. 27, 2018) On October 3, 2018, the Austrian Constitutional Court (Verfassungsgerichtshof Österreich, VfGH) held that after a same-sex couple separates, one former partner must remain able to adopt...
View ArticleKenya: Parliament Considering Amendment to the Country's 2001 Children Act
(Oct. 5, 2018) Kenya’s Parliament is currently reviewing a new bill—the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill, 2018—which seeks to introduce key amendments to the 2001 Children Act. The Bill has...
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