ארכיון נושאים: Common Law Marriage and Common Law Marriage ID Cards
Common Law Marriage
What is Common Law Marriage? A common law couple consists of two partners that live together in a joint household under a common roof creating a family unit without having conducted any officially recognized marriage ceremony to make them husband and wife. In Israel, where no option for a civil wedding exists, common law marriage […]
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Out of consensus Carl Hoffman , THE JERUSALEM POST Jul. 23, 2009
In recent decades, not only social scientists but lawyers, courts and national governments have had to broaden the definition of “family.” New definitions are being crafted to include single parent families, as well as families resulting from same-sex unions, common-law marriages, couples’ agreements, adoption, surrogacy and artificial insemination. In this country, lawyers and human rights […]
להמשך קריאה The Proud Family Revolution, led by New Family, Continues / Lesbian Widow to Receive Government Pension
In another precedent-setting achievement for the rights of same-sex couples led by NIF grantee New Family, an Israeli woman has been granted a widow’s pension by the government’s National Insurance Institute following the death of her lesbian partner. Ella Bar-Ilan, 64, who will receive the pension following the death of her partner Roberta Saltonick, was […]
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Exposing the ‘Partnership Covenant for Religionless’ – IRIT ROSENBLUM 22/11/2010
Not only does this law not provide an alternative to marriage in the rabbinic establishment, it fortifies religious coercion and the Orthodox monopoly over family life. If you support the “Partnership Covenant” because you believe it is liberal or enlightened, think again. Read the final version of the law confirmed last week and ponder the […]
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