section_path: Registered partnerships/Adoption rights
section_name: Adoption rights
paragraph_text: Adoption rights
  
  On 15 June 2021, the State Court of Liechtenstein (Staatsgerichtshof) ruled that registered partners should have the right to adopt, and invalidated the sections of the 2011 partnership law which had forbidden such adoptions. It gave Parliament one year to rectify the issue. Following the court decision, the government drafted a bill granting same-sex couples the right to adopt their stepchildren (i.e. stepchild adoption), which was passed on 6 May 2022. On that same day, Parliament narrowly rejected an amendment that would have excluded same-sex couples from access to joint adoption and assisted reproductive technology.
  
  After a consultation period lasting from 6 July to 30 September 2022, the government passed a motion for full adoption equality for same-sex couples on 31 October 2022. The proposal was discussed at first reading in the Landtag on 2 December 2022 and was passed in a 22 to 3 vote. It was approved in its final reading on 2 March 2023. The law received royal assent and went into effect on 1 June 2023.