Du Toit v Minister for Welfare and Population Development
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Du Toit v Minister for Welfare and Population Development
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Du Toit and Another v Minister for Welfare and Population Development and Others is a decision of the Constitutional Court of South Africa which granted same-sex couples the ability to jointly adopt children. LGBT people had already been able to adopt children individually, but only married couples could adopt jointly; the decision was handed down in September 2002, four years before same-sex marriage became legal in South Africa. The court ruled unanimously that the statutory provisions limitin
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South African legal case
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2024-01-26T08:24:11Z
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