Sentences with phrase «legal recognition»

Since then, MPs and peers from all parties have continued for the past year to call for legal recognition.

Through native title, governments and courts had an opportunity to give legal recognition to the distinct political identity of Indigenous people.

They must first have their marriage dissolved, gain legal recognition of the new gender and then register for a civil partnership.

Under such circumstances, it is important to proceed with an adoption so that the step parent has legal recognition as the child's parent.

Rather, a couple seeking legal recognition of their physical separation without divorcing takes advantage of several different state laws.

As far as marriage is concerned, marriage has its roots in religious doctrine and beliefs and I'm a firm believer that all marriage should be separated from legal recognition.

We do need more legal recognition for tiny house industry with specific rights.

Human rights principles require that Indigenous people's relationships to land, based on traditional laws and customs, be given legal recognition and protection.

In my view, the answer is not necessarily to create a second tier of legal recognition of traditional ownership, but to amend the law and make native title accessible and achievable.

It provides for legal recognition in many areas not covered in state level marriage in the U.S. such as recognition on a par to married couples in immigration, social security and national taxation.

Provide Indigenous Peoples and local communities with legal recognition of rights to their forest.

These titles provide legal recognition of indigenous communities» rights to communal forest lands and associated natural resources.

It seeks overdue precedent for victimized parents everywhere, i.e. full legal recognition of parental alienation.

SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters)- A U.S. appeals court on Friday denied Utah's bid to further block legal recognition of about 1,300 same - sex weddings performed after the state's gay marriage ban was briefly lifted by a federal judge in December.

The British Humanist Association (BHA), which performs a very high number of same - sex wedding ceremonies and has been doing so for over five decades, has responded by saying that the Government should recognise that only by extending legal recognition to humanist ceremonies will same - sex couples be offered a meaningful choice of type of marriage.

On Monday 11 September, the Court of Appeal will reconvene to conclude its hearing of the ongoing case to secure legal recognition for humanist marriages in Northern Ireland.

Both the Bacalar Chico National Park and Marine Reserve were granted legal recognition in 1996.

Unfortunately, most parties never bother to get legal recognition for their new agreement, so over time, they find their new arrangement was incomplete and unenforceable.

Achieving formal legal recognition of native title rights and interests is, and is likely to remain, notoriously difficult.

(See the manifesto» Beyond Same - Sex Marriage,» expressly demanding legal recognition of, among other things, «committed, loving households in which there is more than one conjugal partner.»)

While humanist marriages remain without legal recognition, our network of over 300 highly trained and accredited celebrants continue to conduct unrecognised ceremonies regardless.

Moreover, the strategy of many of those involved in the campaign to achieve legal recognition for same - sex marriage is predicated, so far, on pressing the issue in state courts under state law.

«The main difference I've seen is many «newly married» couples may have been together for decades, and this new legal recognition means they may need to change the way they have been doing things to maximize the benefits or their retirement plans, and minimize taxes as a married couple, versus two individuals.

Civil Partnerships, introduced by the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010, enabled same - sex couples to obtain legal recognition of their relationship and this regulation was enacted on the 1st January 2011.

Illinois Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias comes out for marriage equality, end to «Don't Ask, Don't Tell»: «In an interview, Giannoulias said individual states should be able to decide for themselves whether they allow same - sex couples to marry, but that all states should be required to afford legal recognition to same - sex marriages performed in states where they are sanctioned.»

This morning, the High Court in Belfast ruled that the upcoming humanist marriage ceremony of Laura Lacole and Eunan O'Kane should receive legal recognition, and that such marriage ceremonies should generally be recognised.

Even with their new legal recognition, hijras are still marginalized in a country where impoverished women do not have the same rights as their male counterparts.

n light of the current state of international law in respect of the rights of Indigenous peoples, and Australia's international legal obligations arising from both customary international law and ratified multilateral treaties, it is incumbent upon Australia to provide positive legal recognition and protection of sea rights for Indigenous Australians.

In a few weeks voters in six states will decide on state constitutional amendments that will bar same - sex marriage and any other legal recognition of same - sex couples.

«The same - sex civil marriage debate is not about anyone's private behavior,» they claim, «but about legal recognition.

However, doing everything he can to form a parental relationship, making himself as available as possible, and seeking legal recognition parental rights as soon as possible helps a father best position himself to maintain a say in adoption and other parental decisions.

As law - abiding citizens, we join in according the appropriate legal recognition to these partnerships where and when they are accorded the legal status of marriage.

Yet the author concludes that her jurisprudence requires legal recognition of same - sex and plural marriage, and Brennan concludes that her jurisprudence does not even allow it.

The elected representatives of the several states and the United States Congress instituting legal recognition for same - sex marriages.

It was not until the 1878 Mormon polygamy decision that the Supreme Court accorded this principle legal recognition.

Worley's initial sermon was partly framed as a response to Obama's endorsement of same - sex marriage, which he made in a TV interview a day after North Carolina voters passed a state constitutional amendment banning legal recognition of such marriages and other types of gay unions.

Again, expect lots of Jesuitical explanations about how affirming and even advancing legal recognition of gay rights doesn't at all entail rejecting the Church's teaching about homosexuality.

At the turn of this century, nurse - midwives have enjoyed virtually universal legal recognition across the US and their input has data to prove that their involvement has improved the outcomes of low - risk pregnancies.

Currently, humanist ceremonies must still be made legally valid by a trip to the registry office, unlike in Scotland, where they have had full legal recognition since 2005.

Calls are growing on Government to give humanist weddings legal recognition in England and Wales as new findings suggest that humanist ceremonies are more popular than ever before

Since 2013 the UK Government has had the power to extend legal recognition if it wishes, but hasn't chosen to use this power yet.

«If fact, we already knew that the only reasons like legal recognition could be denied would be political.

Humanists UK Chief Executive Andrew Copson added, «Religious people currently have the legal right to marry in a ceremony that reflects their most fundamental views of the world, but humanists can not do likewise: they are denied legal recognition for a bespoke personalised ceremony that reflects the values of the couple involved, that they share with the celebrant, and that is built around them.

Some in the WFP, a union - controlled New York City - based party, even fear that with Cuomo at the top of their ticket, they won't get the 50,000 votes needed for legal recognition because of voter anger over the governor's refusal to support Mayor de Blasio's plan to tax high earners to fund universal pre-K.