Civil Code

The Lithuanian Center of Registers is expected to reopen free access to its data for the media as early as this week under a temporary solution to be approved by the government on Wednesday.

A group of parliamentarians suggest changing the Civil Code stipulate that gender is a genetically determined quality, banning change of sex in Lithuania.

The Lithuanian government has criticized lawmakers' proposal that relations between people living together be regulated by agreements on joint activity, rather than by partnership agreements.

Lithuania's government will Wednesday discuss the possibility for persons living in cohabitation to regulate their relationship by contracts of joint operations.

Lithuania's opposition Liberal Movement proposes to allow civil partnerships for both unmarried opposite-sex couples and same-sex couples.

A Vilnius court has ordered the Lithuanian capital's civil registry office to change the gender marker of a person who has undergone certain sex reassignment procedures in that person's official records.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that the country's new parliament has so far made no big mistakes in its work, welcomes lawmakers' enthusiasm to combat alcohol abuse and calls on the general public not to rush into criticizing the ruling coalition.

Lithuania's parliament has taken the presidential veto into account, deciding to discard the latest amendments of the Civil Code.

Ramūnas Karbauskis, chairman of the ruling Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU), says that he will propose that the party's political group at the parliament should support the president's veto of amendments to the Civil Code on insulting public figures.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Monday she would veto amendments to the Civil Code on insult of public figures. In her words, the law adopted by the Seimas facilitates persecution for criticizing the administration.

The adopted amendments to the Lithuanian Civil Code constitute a threat to free speech, says civil law expert Valentinas Mikelėnas, professor at the Vilnius University.

Lithuania's government on Thursday gave approval to the changes proposed by the Justice Ministry to the Civil Code which would legalize civil partnership of opposite-sex couples.

The Lithuanian Ministry of Justice has drafted amendments to the Civil Code that would legally recognize partnership between a man and a woman.

The Latvian Meridian Trade Bank in Lithuania has informed their customers that account balances held in Swiss francs will be charged an additionally 1.5% on deposits as negative interest rates introduced by the Swiss Central Bank continue to make an impact.

The Bank of Lithuania, Lithuania’s central bank, has ordered Nordea Bank AB to charge negative interest rates on its loans after the basic interest rate dropped below the bank's surcharge rates.

The Lithuanian parliament, Seimas, rejected the bill that would have introduced the institution of partnership of opposite sex couples. The Ministry of Justice, which drafted the law, says the proposed legislation merely acknowledges the existing forms of cohabitation, while the opponents insist tha...

Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė says she opposes same-sex marriages, giving no clear answer about partnership.

Lithuania's Ministry of Justice has drafted a bill that, if passed, would introduce the institution of partnership into the country's Civil Code. However, the bill spells out that the possibility to form partnerships would only apply to opposite-sex couples. According to Justice Minister Juozas Bern...

By treating opposite-sex and same-sex partnerships differently, Lithuania might violate the European Convention of Human Rights, Vilnius University Professor of Law Vytautas Mizaras says.