Italy's supreme Cassation Court on
Monday said that same-sex marriage between an Italian and a
foreigner celebrated abroad can't be registered in Italy but can
be "converted" into a civil union in its first such ruling.
The court upheld an appeals' court sentence in 2015 on the
case, also ruling that same-sex unions can be registered in
Italy even if they were celebrated abroad before civil unions
between homosexual partners became legal in the country in 2016.
In its first sentence on a same-sex wedding abroad between an
Italian and a foreign citizen, the court ruled against a
Brazilian citizen and an Italian who got married in 2012 in
Brazil and a year later in Portugal and who had requested that
Milan's civil registration office recognize their marriage.
The couple had appealed the 2015 ruling calling it
discriminatory and "downgrading" but the Cassation said it was
based on a State's "legislative discretion".
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