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Seimas members Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, Tomas Vytautas Raskevičius, Paulė Kuzmickienė, Andrius Navickas, Ieva Pakarklytė and Eugenijus Gentvilas prepared such bills on the legalization of the Association, writes the news portal delfi.lt.
These bills, Delfi says, are still being negotiated and are not finalized.
According to the project, a company would be defined as “the fact of the coexistence of two people (partners), registered in accordance with the procedure established by legal acts, with the aim of creating and / and developing, protecting the relationship between partners ”.
As the initiators point out, the law would establish a registered gender-neutral association model, and the legal consequences of the association would arise from the moment the association was registered.
According to the projects, the partnership would be registered by the civil registration authorities, both partners could choose the other partner’s last name as a common last name or choose a double last name.
The draft Law on Corporations proposes that the assets acquired during the partnership on behalf of both partners or one of them be considered as joint property of the partners, presuming that the partners have equal shares in the joint ownership until it is proven. contrary.
It would be easier to end a couple than a civil marriage, where in all cases, even when there are no children, it is necessary to go to court. In the case of a company, in the absence of children, a notary may do so.
The legitimacy of the association is proposed by liberal-minded politicians belonging to the ruling majority. At the suggestion of the Freedom Party, the draft Association Law is included in the work program for the spring session and has not yet been registered.
In Lithuania, the union is not legalized for men and women or same-sex couples. Several previous attempts by liberal politicians to legalize civil union in the country have not reached the stage of adoption in the Seimas.
