Vilnius District Court on Friday rejected request from a same-sex couple to order the registration of their partnership in the civil registry, Ednews reports citing LRT.
The court stated that in the absence of a law on partnership, there is no legal basis to grant the applicants’ request.
Even though the Constitutional Court has ruled that the concept of family is gender-neutral, the Vilnius court said it could not create new norms, which has to be done by the parliament.
“As can be seen from the above-mentioned official constitutional doctrine, the Constitutional Court [...] emphasises that the Seimas [parliament] is obliged to regulate, by laws and other legal acts, the legal relations of all types of family and the rights and obligations of family members,” the Vilnius court said in its ruling.
“The Constitutional Court does not impose the aforementioned obligation on the judiciary,” it said.