Will Bermuda Recognize Same Sex Partnerships
November 2nd, 2007
As with “common law marriages”, there is presently no provision for the legal recognition of same sex couples under Bermuda law. Even though same sex couples have no legal recognition in Bermuda, other countries have done so. Denmark introduced registered partnerships in 1989 for same sex couples and since then a number of other countries have introduced similar regimes including the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Spain, Hungary, Slovenia, Andorra, Australia and New Zealand. In North America, challenges in the courts of various states of the US and Canadian provinces based on non-discriminatory articles in their constitutions, led to the introduction of similar regimes as those found in Europe.