Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 21:59:57 +0100 (MET)
From: skolander@bahnhof.se (Bjoern Skolander)
Subject: Iceland Gets Partnership Law

Iceland Gets Partnership Law with Possibility to Joint Guardianship over
Children.=20

The Icelandic government has, according to the Icelandic Gay and Lesbian
Rights organisation Samt=F6kin '78, put forward a bill to the Parliament=
 about
a registered partnership legislation which is roughly equivalent to the
partnership laws existing in Denmark, Norway and Sweden (that means it does
not include the right to Church weddings, adoption and artificial
insemination), the largest difference being that the Icelandic bill includes
the possibility of homosexual couples who enter into partnership to receive
joint guardianship over children brought into the relationship by one of the
partners. The bill also includes a proposal to ban defamation against
homosexuals as a group. The law changes are expected to be in force from 1
July 1996.

SOURCE:
News from Swedish Lesbian/Gay Politics
Published by the Swedish Federation for Gay and Lesbian Rights (RFSL)
No. 11/1996 (March 19-26, 1996)