Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/01/04
By: Christie Chen
Taipei, Jan. 4 (CNA) The Taipei High Administrative Court on Thursday rejected a marriage
Jennifer Lu (呂欣潔, right)
appeal filed by two women, after a Taipei household office refused to register their union, making them the third lesbian couple to be rejected by the court since last October.
The couple, Jennifer Lu (呂欣潔) and Chen Ling (陳凌), had appealed to the court to overturn the decision by the Zhongzheng District office in 2014 not to allow them to register as a married couple.
In a statement Thursday, however, the court said household registration offices do not have any legal grounds on which to register same-sex marriages until the relevant laws are passed within the next 16 months, in compliance with a landmark ruling by the Constitutional Court last May.
The Constitutional Court’s historic Interpretation No. 748 gave the Legislature two years to amend existing laws or pass new ones to give marriage rights to all couples.
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