Hope for China’s same-sex couples as new civil code helps protect property rights
The civil code does not put restrictions such as kinship or gender on people who can be given the right to reside, says a property law specialist in Shanghai
28 May 2020 - 13:53
Beijing — It was an ambush, said He Meili, a 51-year-old lesbian woman, describing how she met her dead partner's step-parents at a police station where they demanded she leave the apartment the couple had shared for 12 years.
“It was that very moment at the police station when I truly felt the pain of not being protected by the law,” she said...
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