Same-sex couples in India still can’t protect each other’s money

Bengaluru-based Sukanth Rallapati and Vaibhav Dalal have been together for 14 years. They own a piece of land, run a household, and have built, by every measure that matters to them, a family. When they bought that land as an investment a few years ago, both their names were added to the title once the transaction closed. There was no way to record what they were to one another. Get ready for Chennai’s Rainbow Pride March on June 28“We couldn’t say we were each other’s spouse or partner in any legally meaningful sense,” says Sukanth, 48. That’s a reality queer couples continue to navigate.”On October 17 2023, the Supreme Court declined to grant same-sex couples the right to marry, holding in a 3-2 verdict in Supriyo v. Union of India that the question belonged to Parliament.

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