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‘Unmarried partners, queer relationships to be considered as family’: Supreme Court

In the midst of the taboo surrounding domestic partners who reside together, the Supreme Court made a progressive observation during a hearing.

“Familial relationships may take the form of domestic, unmarried partnerships or queer relationships”, the Supreme Court has observed, while noting that an ”atypical” manifestation of a family unit is as real as its traditional counterpart.