Recognition of same-sex unions in Monaco

On 4 December 2019, the National Council passed a bill establishing cohabitation agreements, offering both same-sex and opposite-sex couples limited rights and benefits in the areas of inheritance and property.

In November 2010, an interview mentioned that Jean-Charles Gardetto,[2] a member of the National Council and lawyer, was preparing a draft bill intending to legally define cohabitation, either for heterosexual or for homosexual couples.

The agreement, which is open to siblings and parents and children as well, also provides an enumerated set of property and social security rights, and reciprocal obligations.

[9] Several lawmakers criticized the "hypocritical" opposition of Catholic officials, notably from the Archbishop of Monaco, Bernard Barsi, who had written to all deputies urging them to vote against the bill, noting that the law concerned solely civil matters and not religious ones.

The Civil Code of Monaco does not explicitly ban same-sex marriages, but article 116 requires "the man" and "the woman" to be at least 18 years of age to marry.

[17] On 10 March 2022, a lower court ruled that the government had to register the marriage of a dual Monegasque-American same-sex couple who had married in Michigan in August 2019.

[21] In May 2015, the United Protestant Church of France, which has one parish in Monaco, voted to allow its pastors to bless same-sex marriages.

[23] According to a survey conducted in 2007 by the Union pour Monaco (UPM) party before the 2007 municipal elections, 51% of the respondents (only native Monegasque inhabitants asked) agreed that living in a registered partnership should be accepted.