Colombia’s Constitutional Court granted same-sex couples the right to inherit their partner’s pension fund and compensation packages, reported local media Thursday.
The ruling stated that same-sex couples legally constitute a family, affording them the same access to a partner’s legacy as heterosexual couples, if proof can be provided they had been living together.
The high court ruling concluded, “The part of the Constitution that treats the concept of family as solely the union between a man and a woman is blatantly wrong, because the family bond is achieved from a variety of diverse situations including the free will to form a family, regardless of the gender or orientation of its members.”
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