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Such unions have been possible in Germany since 2001 but legally fall short of marriage.  At present, a spouse pays an inheritance tax of between 7 and 30 per cent, but gay partners must pay between 17 and 50 per cent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany&#8217;s highest court has ruled that gay couples in civil partnerships are entitled to the same inheritance tax rules as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,64],"tags":[331,319],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>German court rules gay couples entitled to equal treatment on inheritance tax - Proud Parenting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2010\/08\/german-court-rules-gay-couples-entitled-to-equal-treatment-on-inheritance-tax\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"German court rules gay couples entitled to equal treatment on inheritance tax - 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