Kees Waaldijk is professor of comparative sexual
orientation law at Leiden Law School (https://
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/
kees-waaldijk). He is the principal editor of the law
content of the LawsAndFamilies Database (http://
www.LawsAndFamilies.eu). This paper is based
on his chapters in the comparative analysis of
that dataset in the report More and more together:
Legal family formats for same-sex and different-sex
couples in European countries (Waaldijk (Ed.) 2017,
http://www.familiesandsocieties.eu/wp-content/
uploads/2017/04/WorkingPaper75.pdf), and on
some recent information until January 2018.
The author is deeply grateful to all the legal ex-
perts across Europe who answered the detailed
questions in the LawsAndFamilies questionnaire
for their respective jurisdictions, and who re-
viewed answers given by their colleagues; to the
people at INED in Paris (in particular Kamel Nait
Abdellah, Arianna Caporali and Marie Digoix) who
made the legal survey technically possible and
who worked with dedication on the creation of
the LawsAndFamilies Database; and to the re-
searchers at Leiden Law School (José María Loren-
zo Villaverde, Natalie Nikolina, Giuseppe Zago
and Daniel Damonzé) who for different periods
contributed with great commitment to the draft-
ing and organisation of the legal questionnaire, the
reviewing and editing of the answers, the creation
of the legal database, and/or the comparative
analysis.
The research leading to these results has received
funding from the European Union’s Seventh
Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under
grant agreement no. 320116 for the research
project FamiliesAndSocieties (see http://www.
familiesandsocieties.eu). Additional funding was
received from the Leiden University Fund (Betsy
Brouwer Fonds) and of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of Denmark.
The opinions expressed in this work are the responsi-
bility of the author and do not necessarily reflect the
official policy of the Council of Europe or the Danish
chairmanship.
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