A Czech court has acknowledged the legal rights of a gay couple as the parents of adopted twins for the first time in the country’s history.

This landmark ruling has given the Czech LGBTIQ community hope this watershed decision will make way for permanent legal rights for same-sex parents and adoption.

Czech publication ‘Prague Post’ reports the Czech father and his French husband adopted their twin boys in San Francisco where they live, though the children spend their days with their grandmother in the Czech Republic – where their fathers have no rights.

“Now we can be granted Czech citizenship, thanks to which we can move to the Czech Republic,” the Czech father, who works as a financial director in the USA, is quoted as saying.

The ruling on the rights of the fathers was only possible in light of a recently enacted law in the Czech Republic, under which Czech courts may recognise foreign rulings on adoption.

OIP Staff