Tag: non marital family
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The Non Marital Family in Irish Law-What You Need to Know About Guardianship, Access, Custody, Maintenance
The Irish Constitution envisages the ‘family’ as one based on marriage alone. Clearly this leads to huge difficulties for the many non-marital families in Ireland. However it has been held that non marital children have the same ‘natural and imprescriptible rights’ as marital children under article 42 of the Constitution. Unlike the rights of the…