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Further Topics and Overlapping Legal Issues in Family Law (view source)
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The ''[[Divorce Act]]'' no longer requires spouses to be of opposite genders to qualify for a divorce order. Oh happy day. | The ''[[Divorce Act]]'' no longer requires spouses to be of opposite genders to qualify for a divorce order. Oh happy day. | ||
==Issues affecting transgendered | ==Issues affecting transgendered and transsexual people== | ||
To be brutally frank, the jury is still out on how family law impacts on the trans community. Right now, the laws have slipped into a comfortable understanding of "the same or opposite genders" and only accommodates people on the spectrum in between with difficulty. While bisexuality is as close to a non-issue in this context as there can be, transgendered and transsexual people may well encounter difficulty in dealing with family law matters. This discussion offers only a gloss on some of the issues affecting this community. | To be brutally frank, the jury is still out on how family law impacts on the trans community. Right now, the laws have slipped into a comfortable understanding of "the same or opposite genders" and only accommodates people on the spectrum in between with difficulty. While bisexuality is as close to a non-issue in this context as there can be, transgendered and transsexual people may well encounter difficulty in dealing with family law matters. This discussion offers only a gloss on some of the issues affecting this community. | ||
