(ANSA) – ROME, MAY 31 – All newborns will have the surname of both parents or, in the case of agreement, only that of one of them. The rule, resulting from the ruling with which the Constitutional Court declared the automatic assignment of the paternal surname illegitimate, will be effective from the day following the publication of the sentence in the Official Gazette. The Council itself explains it in the reasons for the sentence filed today.
The judges underline that the automatic attribution of the paternal surname alone “translates into the invisibility of the mother” and is the sign of an inequality between the parents, which “reverberates and is imprinted on the identity of the child”. All this involves the violation of constitutional principles and the European Convention on Human Rights. In any case, it is “urgent”, argues the Court, that the legislator intervenes both to “prevent the attribution of the surname of both parents to involve, in the succession of generations, a multiplier mechanism” and to protect “the interest of the child. not to be given a different surname than that of brothers and sisters “. On this last point, the sentence indicates a possible solution, namely that the choice of the surname attributed to the first child is binding with respect to subsequent children of the same couple. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
I have been working in the news industry for over 10 years now and I have worked for some of the biggest news websites in the world. My focus has always been on entertainment news, but I also cover a range of other topics. I am currently an author at Global happenings and I love writing about all things pop-culture related.
