Same-Sex Unions in the Conflict of Laws: Places

Same-Sex Unions
in the
Conflict of Laws

If there is one thing that the people are entitled to expect from their lawmakers, it is rules of law that will enable individuals to tell whether they are married and, if so, to whom.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson (1948)

Russia


	INTERNAL LAW

	marriage?	no

	equivalent?	no

	lesser form?	no

	equality law?	no

	gay sex legal?	yes

› International Law

Code

› Family Code of the Russian Federation (1996)

Secondary Source

Olga A. Dyuzheva, International Marriage and Divorce Regulation and Recognition in Russia, 29 Fam. L.Q. 645 (1995)