A recent court ruling in the province of Quebec has granted legal rights to poly-parental families in Quebec, giving them the same status as two-parent or single-parent families. Quebec Superior Court Justice ruled that restricting a child's legal ties to one or two parents is unconstitutional.
The Quebec government now has 12 months to amend the Civil Code to comply with this ruling.
In layman's terms, it means that a child can have two fathers and one mother or two mothers and one father...
Marc-André Landry, the lawyer who advocated for this legal change, explained that this ruling does not apply to step-parents or other "modern" families formed after the child's birth. It applies to situations where multiple adults were involved in a relationship before the child was conceived.
In other words, this "poly-parental family building plan" needs to be in place before the child is created.
"Three people sit together and say, let's have a child!" Then all three agree and start making a baby. After the child is born, these three people equally share parental custody rights.
Lawyer Marc-André Landry cited three examples from the case:
The first is the "three-person group," involving three adults (one man and two women) with four children.
The second case involves a lesbian couple and a male donor who wishes to participate in the child's life as a father.
The third is a woman with infertility issues who had her husband father a child with a friend, who then requested to continue being recognized as the mother.
In fact, poly-parental families already have legal status in several other provinces of Canada, including Ontario and British Columbia.
In other words, in Canada, having a child not only requires love but also requires holding a shareholders' meeting and signing a tripartite agreement in advance.
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