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unusual facts about Civil union


Civil unions in Quebec

Civil unions in Quebec are available in Quebec to both opposite-sex and same-sex couples and generally creates the same rights for the partners as a traditional marriage.


Recognition of same-sex unions in Chile

During January 2006's presidential campaign both President Michelle Bachelet and center-right candidate Sebastián Piñera voiced their support for civil unions, but the Catholic Church and many members of Congress were opposed.

Susanne Baer

She is in a civil union.


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Civil unions in Quebec

As a result of a range of activism and to the M. v. H. decision, the National Assembly of Quebec voted unanimously in 2002 to amend the Civil Code of Quebec to create a status of civil union in Quebec, available to both opposite-sex and same-sex couples and largely having the same rights as marriage.

Nuptial agreement

Prenuptial agreement, a contract entered into prior to marriage or civil union.

Ruslan Vyacheslavovich Kurbanov

In 2011 was included in the list of candidates to Russian State Duma from Dagestani regional public organization “Dagestan civil union” along with other candidates like Ramazan Abdulatipov, Sergey Reshulsky etc.

Scarus

In Ripa's Renaissance iconography, the scarus fish symbolised civil "Union", i.e. the joining together of individuals into a collective body.

Speechless: Silencing the Christians

# Vows on the Boardwalk? -- This episode examines the Ocean Grove, New Jersey "Boardwalk Pavilion case", where two lesbians file a complaint against a Methodist association, which refused on religious grounds to allow a same-sex civil union ceremony to be held in a structure which the plaintiffs claimed was public property.