1. Family Law and Same Sex Relationships in Australia
The change is section 4, removed the previously discriminative definition to "A relationship between two adult person who live together as a couple.... As these common and legislative law reforms have resulted in a closing of a gap between heterosexual and homosexual relationships inequality and rights it has been quite effective but due to the nature of federal legislation it is a slow process for the legislation to keep up with the ever changing common law. ... These expanded definitions allowed same sex couples to come under the currently legislation preventing major and lengthy law r...
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