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Family Law Prof Blog From the Guardian: Switzerland will hold a referendum on whether to push ahead with same-sex marriage after opponents forced the government to hold a binding vote on a 2020 law allowing gay couples to marry. The Swiss parliament passed a bill recognising same-sex marriage last December, several years after most other western European states. On Tuesday, the country’s federal chancellery announced that critics of the law had gathered 61,027 valid signatures in favour of putting the matter to a national vote. Under Switzerland’s system of direct democracy, members of ...

Family Law Prof Blog From the New York Times: In Taiwan, one of the few places in the world to offer marriage leave to couples heading to the altar, a bank employee wed his partner on April 6, 2020. They got divorced days later, on April 16. Then they remarried the following day. Another divorce and a third marriage followed on April 28 and April 29. After a third divorce, on May 11, they got married for the fourth time, on May 12. It was all a plot to take advantage of the self-governing island’s time-off policy for couples who get married — eight days of leave — the man’s employer, ...