NYC judge rules on polyamorous relationships: Perhaps 'time has arrived'
08.10.2022 - 21:45
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An opinion from New York City's eviction court has come down on the side of polyamorous unions. In the case of West 49th St., LLC v. O’Neill, New York Civil Court Judge Karen May Bacdayan reportedly concluded that polyamorous relationships are entitled to the same sort of legal protection given to two-person relationships.
West 49th St., LLC v. O’Neill involved three individuals: Scott Anderson and Markyus O’Neill, who lived together in a New York City apartment, and Anderson's husband Robert Romano, who resided elsewhere.
Anderson held the lease, and following his death, the building's owner argued that O'Neill had no right to renew the lease because he was a "non-traditional family member." The attorney for the property owner said that O'Neill's affidavit, in which he claims himself as a non-traditional family member, is a "fairytale." According to LGBTQ Nation, the case returns to court after further investigation of the three individuals’ relationship. Community members protest against evictions and in support of the movement to "cancel rent" outside the Bronx housing court on Aug.
10, 2020, in the Bronx borough of New York City. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images) In her decision, Judge Bacdayan highlighted the importance of a previous case and asserted that the existence of a triad – no matter how they got along – should not automatically dismiss O'Neill's claim to non-eviction protections. "Before gay marriage was legalized in any state, Braschi v.
Stahl Assocs. Co., 74 NY2d 201 (1989) was decided.The New York State Court of Appeals became the first American appellate court to recognize that a non-traditional, two-person, same-sex, committed family-like relationship is entitled to legal recognition, and that the
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