HUNGARY RECOGNIZES GAY RELATIONSHIPS.(News/National/International)

From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | Date: June 2, 1996 | Copyright information

Byline: Associated Press

BUDAPEST, Hungary -- Common-law relationships between homosexuals will be recognized under a law adopted recently by Hungary's Parliament.

The new law will entitle gays to inherit property from their partners and receive a deceased partner's pension, but will not allow them to adopt children.

Parliament members approved the civil code amendment 207 to 73, with five abstentions.

The amendment was required after a Constitutional ...

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