Court requires equal treatment of family bonuses for registered same sex couples. Bonuses can be retroactively reclaimed from the date that the law on registered partnerships came into force (2001).
2 BvR 1397/09, Constitutional Court of Germany (19 June 2012), (Full text of judgment in German, URL)
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