Hope for China’s same-sex couples as new civil code helps protect property rights

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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

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.

When Li died from lupus in 2016, her step-parents, legally next-of-kin, inherited the apartment in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou and were quick to stick an eviction note on the door. It gives a property owner the power to grant another individual the right to live on the property for a term or for life, offering far more legal protection than a will, which can be challenged by family members.“It could become gospel for the LGBTI community,” said He, who had been barred from co-owning the apartment as she was not an official resident of Guangzhou, having moved to the liberal megacity from her hometown in the autonomous Guangxi region.

 

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