Open AccessTHE INSTITUTION OF THE CIVIL PARTNERSHIP
Author(s) -
Petru Tărchilă
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
agora international journal of juridical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2067-7677
pISSN - 1843-570X
DOI - 10.15837/aijjs.v11i1.3016
Subject(s) - parliament , cohabitation , romanian , legislature , general partnership , institution , political science , law , european union , normative , annulment , harmonization , public administration , sociology , business , philosophy , linguistics , physics , politics , acoustics , economic policy
Currently, within the territory of 21-member states of the European Union, live couples in civil partnership, couples which form families outside the judicial institution of marriage. In Romania as well, around 4% of couples live in a type of civil partnership popularly named “concubinage” and, from their perspective, they form a family, they have children who are recognized by both parents and the patrimonial goods earned throughout their cohabitation represent common property, in a condominium. Although the initiative of the “civil partnership” has been repeatedly proposed, the Romanian Parliament rejected the idea of its judicial regulation, and recently, perhaps due to the legislative harmonization of this aspect with EU law, the Romanian Senate will debate a project of normative act in this domain. The legislative initiative would approve the unit of will of two people who willingly decide to cohabitate, regardless of whether the couples are made up of heterosexual couples or couples made up of people of the same sex.