After 17 months of waiting, the Congress of Coahuila approved the amendment of Article 253 of the Civil Code of Coahuila that allows for the equal civil marriage in the state within the framework of respect for the fundamental rights of all people.
With 19 votes in favor and one against the Democratic Unity Party of Coahuila constitutional proposal of the Social Democratic Party deputy, Samuel Acevedo, originally filed on March 12, 2013 was declared.
After passing the Civil Solidarity Pact in 2007 and amend its Civil and Criminal Code, this is the second state in the country to adopt and standardize the equal civil marriage. Thus, the figure disappears father and mother of all official stationery by the parent, including such figures as father and mother, father and parent and mother.
Furthermore, section 253 expands his conception of marriage and stop being a union between a man and a woman for two seniors and in full possession of his mental faculties.
Another benefit of the reform is to be the and the members of same-sex couples who decide the order of names of their children.
The PAN bloc questioned said legislative change as according Edmundo Gomez, member of his party, he considered that the legal union of two persons of the same sex is not a convention of international treaties.
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After noting the legislative opinion, Noah Leonardo Ruiz Community of St. Aelred said that this reform represents a political transformation for the state and gives clear signs of political progress, plus it reveals that this time the will of the rulers and coahuilenses Congress was in favor of citizenship.
The activist, a legislative change of this magnitude, can show that rights are for all people regardless of sexual orientation or preference.
He stressed that reform is product of a few years, which was extended due to the Government Commission carefully reviewed the proposal. Despite this, he said, no couple resorted to amparo proceedings for access to marriage because a substantial modification is sought in the matter.
Despite this achievement on behalf of intersex lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transvestite, transgender and the resort, said Ruiz, is pending the approval of a law sexogenérica identity that allows transgender people to enjoy their right identity, as well as working with the community of sexual diversity to access their rights and do not force them to adopt a figure as the Civil Solidarity Pact when it is already possible marriage in the state.
For its part, the National Council to Prevent Discrimination said in a press release that the adoption of the initiative, the state of Coahuila is part of the fulfillment of the objectives of the National Programme for Equality and Non-discrimination, filed 18 last August, in which lines establishes the recognition of the right of people to marriage or same-sex union.
Civil Solidarity Pact in Coahuila and adoption
In 2007, the state legislature approved the inclusion of the Civil Code of the State of Coahuila Civil Solidarity Pact, which was defined as "a contract entered into by two individuals, of legal age, of the same or opposite sex, to organize your life in common. Those who are considered civilians celebrating teammates. Civil partners, should help and mutual assistance, consideration and respect, and reciprocal duty of gratitude and be obliged to act in the common interest; equally entitled to food together. "
Thus, Coahuila became the first state in Mexico to have effective legislation for civil unions between same-sex couples. According to figures provided by the Registry of Coahuila January 11, 2007, the date of approval of the Solidarity Pact, until December 2013, there have been 426 such marriages have been dissolved and only 36.
On 12 February, Congress repealed the fraction 7 of Article 385 of the Civil Code which prevented the adoption by couples formed by same-sex couples. The clause mentioned that "civil same-sex partners may not perform adoptions jointly or individually. Shall not share or entrust the custody or guardianship and custody of the minor children of another country.'s Null and void any agreement that violates this provision ".
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