First Lesbian Couple to Marry in Michoacan, Wins Legal Right to Become Mothers Jean Paul Zapata - Gay Star News
go to original July 28, 2014

A lesbian couple in Mexico won a court ruling validating their marriage, allowing them to pursue parenthood should they wish.

Alejandra Banderas Rosales y Claudia Brizeiry López Ramos, who became the first same-sex couple to legally wed in the state of Michoacan on 12 March 2014, were informed over the weekend their case against Mexico’s Family Code proved successful.

The couple was battling against Articles 123 and 125 of the Family Code, which respectively state marriage must be between a man and a woman and while marriage is used to propagate the species, it does not obligate a couple to have children.

In states where unions of same-sex couples may not be recognized, the couples risk losing custody of their children depending on the case or birth parents of the child.

According to Quadratin, a court in Michoacan found the two articles were in direct conflict with the Magna Carta and the Treaty of International Human Rights signed by the Mexican government.

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