Legal Innovations
A central aspect of New Family’s work is innovating legal solutions that circumvent or mitigate infringements on rights in marriage and divorce by creating civil alternatives to religious authorities who have exclusive jurisdiction over family status in Israel. New Family pioneered contractual marriage and Domestic Partnership Cards, which confers couples that cannot legally marry or do not wish to marry according to the required orthodox religious rites legal status and rights equal to married couples. Domestic Partnership Cards have been issued to thousands of couples and recognized by government authorities.
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