Children of same-sex couples in Taiwan only have one legal parent.
The News Lens
Date: 2016/11/22
By: ZiQing Low
When Chieh Li (潔麗, an alias) was recovering from her cesarean section, her partner Rabbit (an alias)
Photo Credit：RT/ 達志影像
was unable to enter the intensive care unit where their newborn twins were being monitored because she was not legally recognized as their guardian.
This is just one barrier faced by the nearly 100 same-sex couples who have children in Taiwan, the Taiwan LGBT Family Rights Advocacy said at a press conference yesterday.
Chieh Li and her partner, along with six other same-sex couples, plan to file a lawsuit in December to claim joint custody over their children.
Under the current Civil Code, only the birth mother is the legal parent of children born to same-sex couples, and adopted children can only be registered under one parent. [FULL STORY]
