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Can a man who becomes a woman make an agreement with her male cohabitee regulating their mutual rights and obligations ?

Agreements Between Cohabitating Couples

Yes.

Can two homosexuals who live together make a legally binding agreement covering their rights and obligations towards each other ?

Agreements Between Cohabitating Couples

Yes. Two homosexuals can draft an agreement formalizing their rights and obligations to each other. Such a family life agreement can be authorized at the family court according to the Family Courts Act of 1995, and obtain the binding validity of a judgment.

Can two people of the same sex who live together make a legally valid agreement covering their rights and obligations towards each other ?

Agreements Between Cohabitating Couples

Yes. Two Lesbians can have a family life agreement drawn up which regulates their rights and obligations towards each other. They can now even have the agreement authorized at a family court so that it has the binding validity of a judgment.

I read in the press that the Tel Aviv family court refused to authorize an agreement made between two Lesbian women. A while ago I remember reading that a court had authorized an agreement between two Lesbians. Is it possible for two courts to give conflicting decisions on the same issue ?

Agreements Between Cohabitating Couples

The judgment authorizing a family life agreement between two Lesbians was made by the family court in Beersheva in Summer 2001. In March 2002 the Tel Aviv Court gave a decision stating that it lacked jurisdiction to authorize agreements made by Lesbian or homosexual couples. It stressed that it only had jurisdiction to authorize agreements between cohabiting heterosexual couples under the Family Courts’ Act of 1995. Courts are not bound by decisions or judgments of courts of a similar level. Under the principles of precedent in The Basic Law: Judiciary a family court is only bound by what the Supreme Court decides. Even what a district court rules is of guiding force only.

Can a man who becomes a woman make an agreement with her male cohabitee regulating their mutual rights and obligations ?

Cohabitation LGBT

Yes, in principle it is possible for a transgender and a male cohabitee to draw up a family life agreement and have it authorized at the family court under the Family Courts Act of 1995.

 

Can two homosexuals who live together make a legally binding agreement covering their rights and obligations towards each other ?

Cohabitation LGBT

Yes. Two homosexuals can draft an agreement formalizing their rights and obligations to each other. Such a family life agreement can be authorized at the family court according to the Family Courts Act of 1995, and obtain the binding validity of a judgment.

A family life agreement between two Lesbians received court authorization in Israel back in 2001.

Can two people of the same sex who live together make a legally valid agreement covering their rights and obligations towards each other ?

Agreements Between Cohabitating Couples

Yes. Two Lesbians can have a family life agreement drawn up which regulates their rights and obligations towards each other. They can now even have the agreement authorized at a family court so that it has the binding validity of a judgment.

This was the case with two cohabiting Lesbian women who had a family life agreement authorized at the Southern District Family Court in the Summer of 2001. In its judgment the court said that both of the Lesbian women fulfilled the criteria of “family member” under the Family Courts Act of 1995 and, therefore, it had jurisdiction to authorize the agreement between them.

It added that there was no reference in the act saying that family members forming an agreement had to be of different sexes. The decision was also consistent with the general trend in Israel and the world as a whole to recognize the rights of non-heterosexual couples, the court said.

Can a man and woman who live together without marrying, make an agreement to cover their lifestyle ?

Agreements Between Cohabitating Couples

Yes – the agreement can cover their rights and obligations towards one another in the relationship, and also, if it ends.

Can a man and woman who live together without marrying, make an agreement to cover their lifestyle ?

Agreements Between Cohabitating Couples

Yes – the agreement can cover their rights and obligations towards one another in the relationship, and also, if it ends.

My boyfriend suggests we live together and not get married. I am worried that I will not have financial security this way. Am I right ?

Agreements Between Cohabitating Couples

Yes ! If you cohabit rather than marry you have no automatic right to be supported financiallly by your boyfriend – unless  if you make an agreement.

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